Empathy Quote by George W. Bush

“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

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what…

— David Herbert Donald

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

— Fred Kaplan

“The problem is that we tend too often to read Lincoln's growth backward, as an unproblematic trajectory toward a predetermined end. This enables scholars…

— Eric Foner

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

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

— Bruce Barton

Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

— Barack Obama

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”   Abraham Lincoln”

— Rriiver Nyile

Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth.…

— Eric Foner

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