Accounts Quote by David Herbert Donald

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

— David Herbert Donald

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.…

— David Herbert Donald

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think…

— David Herbert Donald

“Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was 272 words and he delivered it under three minutes. He labored on it for days. The "featured speaker," Edward Everett,…

— David Herbert Donald

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though…

— David Herbert Donald

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of…

— David Herbert Donald

“Sumner’s mind keeping the peace abroad was connected with freeing the slaves at home. Repeatedly he tried to convince Lincoln that by issuing an…

— 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…

— David Herbert Donald

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…

— David Herbert Donald

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

— David Herbert Donald

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a…

— David Herbert Donald

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln…

— David Herbert Donald