Adults Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

When I need to stretch my legs, I can walk across the street to the museum and relax among the illustrations of Abraham Lincoln's…

— Allen C. Guelzo

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

— Norman Rockwell

“Here is Abraham Lincoln’s touching condolence letter to 22-year-old Fanny McCullough, the daughter of a long-time friend: “Dear Fanny It is with deep grief…

— Abraham Lincoln

I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a human being.…

— Billy Campbell

“Lincoln was “the most truly progressive man of the age, because he always moves in conjunction with propitious circumstances, not waiting to be dragged…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Indeed, several months later, when Lincoln became convinced that Schofield was actually leaning toward the conservatives instead of using “his influence to harmonize the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln's ability to retain his emotional balance in such difficult situations was rooted in actute self-awareness and an enormous capacity to dispel anxiety in…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Abraham Lincoln would maintain that he had never been in favor “of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Chase has fallen into two bad habits… . He thinks he has become indispensable to the country… . He also thinks he ought to…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin