Lincoln Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Much comment on Mrs T.’s courage the next morning, when she arrives at the Conservative conference on the dot, but it’s not difficult to…

— Alan Bennett

“Always remain calm and unruffled, no matter what happens. If your coachman has a heart attack, your carriage crashes, your hat blows off and…

— Ken Follett

And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in…

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“At the end of the summer the sea always seems to be railing against the thought of another long, fierce New England winter.”

— Cate Tiernan

And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

— 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

“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