Advice Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free."

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the…

— Clint Eastwood

“One difficulty we face today is the fact that the Republicrat faction that portrays itself as ‘conservative’ is anything but. While the term ‘neoconservative’…

— Joseph Befumo

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

— Barack Obama

Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

— Esther Peterson

“extremists at both ends of the political continuum have more in common with each other than they do with the vast majority of people…

— Brené Brown

Lincoln said, 'With malice toward none, with charity to all.' Nowadays they say, 'Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights outta…

— Lionel Barrymore

“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

“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

I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I…

— William Kristol

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

— Lyndon B. Johnson