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Lincoln Quotes by David Herbert Donald
- The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than…
- In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few…
- Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter…
- I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going…
- The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to…
- I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
- Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all…
- At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody…
- Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind…
- What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he…
- But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal…
- But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're…
- I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as…
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- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. — Bruce Barton
- Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas… — Elayne Boosler
- You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of… — George H. W. Bush
- The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at… — George H. W. Bush
- Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists… — George H. W. Bush
- Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more… — Drew Carey
- The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work… — Carl G. Fisher
- I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are… — Darrell Issa
- The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to… — Theodore Hesburgh
- We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building… — Carl G. Fisher
- The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki