American president Quote by David Herbert Donald

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

— Christie Hefner

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good,…

— Steven Spielberg

I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout…

— Eric Foner

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him,…

— Richard M. Nixon

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

— Henry Louis Gates

It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want.…

— Allen C. Guelzo

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…

— David Herbert Donald

Lincoln was a man who created himself from nothing without any help from outside or other people. I followed his struggles. I see certain…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

— Tony Kushner

In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual,…

— Richard J. Maybury

President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great -…

— Hillary Clinton

“This, then, is a story of Lincoln’s political genius revealed through his extraordinary array of personal qualities that enabled him to form friendships with…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin