Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with girls'stories such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Lincoln revealed early on a quality that would characterize his leadership for the rest of his life—a willingness to acknowledge errors and learn from his mistakes.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Will wrote frequently to Nellie, describing his daily routine in detail only a lover would not find exhausting.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

That very afternoon, Taft fell seriously ill with what doctors mistakenly diagnosed as dengue fever. He remained bedridden for ten days, and when he returned to work, severe rectal pain prevented him...

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

In the reflected gaze of his (her husband's) steady admiration, she saw the face of the girl he had fallen in love with.

Well, did anything interesting happen today?' [my father] would begin. And even before the daily question was completed I had eagerly launched into my narrative of every play, and almost every pitch,...

Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty, Henry Demarest Lloyd

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day.

Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment. But, he famously asserted, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln’s Mars, eventually became secretary

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

It is surprising, Roosevelt explained, how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

Private citizens were asked to open their homes;