There I go When my heart all worn by grief Sinketh low. Where my baseless hopes do lie There to find my peace, go I. Sad and slow . .
There are two antagonistic elements of society in America, Seward had proclaimed, freedom and slavery. Freedom is in harmony with our system of government and with the spirit of the age, and is theref...
To Lincoln’s mind, the fundamental test of a democracy was its capacity to elevate the condition of men, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all.
Until we address unequal history, we cannot overcome unequal opportunity. Until blacks stand on level and equal ground, we cannot rest. It must be our goal to assure that all Americans play by the sam...
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.We a...
When angry at a colleague, Lincoln would fling off what he called a hot letter, releasing all his pent wrath. He would then put the letter aside until he cooled down and could attend the matter with a...
When he first returned to the Badlands in the summer of 1884, the austere landscape seemed to mirror his melancholy.
While some men, he observed, were naturally fearless, he had to train his soul and spirit as well as his body. So, constantly forcing himself to do the difficult or even dangerous thing, he gradually...
Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narrativ...
Wilson argued that the wealth of America lay in its small businesses, its towns and villages. Its vitality does not lie in New York, nor in Chicago, he asserted; it will not be sapped by anything that...
With McClure’s support, Steffens embarked on an odyssey. For the better part of three years, he called on people in St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, and...
All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
All relations of power rest on one thing, a contract between the leader and the followers such that the followers believe it is in their interest to follow the leader. No man can compel another—except...
But it would be a dreadful misfortune for a man to grow to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service...
By acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.
Debate and decision. Congress itself was not, in his view, equipped with the expertise, the time, or the type of coherent organizational structure needed to formulate and initiate programs of action o...
Elocution,
If ever an argument can be made for the conclusive importance of the character and intelligence of the leader in fraught times, at home and abroad, it will come to rest on the broad shoulders of Frank...
Immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by the raillery
Magnanimity
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