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• The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood…
• In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the…
• Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though…
• Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute…
• I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
• Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
• I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about…
• The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with…
• 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…
• At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that…
• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw…

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