Attitude Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

“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

“By privately endorsing Seward’s spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retained an astonishing degree of control over an increasingly…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”

— James Russell Lowell

“The most profound radicalism is often the most profound conservatism.”

— Jackson Lears

Lincoln basically pulled in all the people who had been running against him into his Cabinet because, whatever personal feelings there were, the issue…

— Barack Obama

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a…

— Frederick Douglass

Only a fool pokes a mama bear, but that's Merrick Garland for you. The attorney general thought to be such a moderate that 20…

— Miranda Devine

“A major element in Lincoln's greatness was the way in which he could hold a strong moral position without the usual accompaniment of self-righteousness.”

— Elton Trueblood

“Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes them suppose…

— Elton Trueblood

“he claimed to be one of the last true conservatives—only, to conserve, you had to prune and graft and adjust.”

— Poul Anderson

“You can become radicalized in the sense that you come to believe, firmly, a position that is within the political mainstream—for example, that your…

— Cass R. Sunstein