Since I heard. Yes, Will, I do know her, and it makes
Beneath Lincoln’s tenderness and kindness, he was without question the most complex, ambitious, willful, and implacable leader of them all.
We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty that they have had collusion with men whose interests were in conflict with the interes...
Washington
I want, freshman Senator Gale McGee wrote to Johnson, to take time to convey to you my deep personal appreciation for the committee assignments. Because of these appointments we freshmen have no alibi...
I opened the curtain and entered the confessional, a dark wooden booth built into the side wall of the church. As I knelt on the small worn bench, I could hear a boy's halting confession through the w...
I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.
How children dance, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, to the unlived lives of their parents,
He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.
Fanny was upset when Crittenden criticized Florence Nightingale, the celebrated British nurse of the Crimean War, saying, he thought it a very unwomanly thing for a gentle lady to go into a hospital o...
Even Roosevelt, with his singular disciplined drive, managed to quit work early four or five afternoons each week for a game of tennis or jog through Rock Creek Park before heading
All one can do is to prepare oneself, to wait in readiness for what might come.
After a quarter of a century in politics, Roosevelt observed, he had found that change was realized by men who take the next step; not those who theorize about the 200th step.
Abraham Lincoln never lived to see the completion of the task he had begun with his Proclamation—the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment by three-quarters of the states in December 1865.
Persuaded editors and publishers at a dozen leading
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...
With public sentiment, nothing can fail, Abraham Lincoln said, without it nothing can succeed. Such a leader is inseparably linked to the people. Such leadership is a mirror in which the people see th...
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...
When I read aloud, Lincoln later explained, two senses catch the idea: first, I see what I read; second, I hear it, and therefore I remember it better.
Unlike depression, melancholy does not have a specific cause. It is an aspect of temperament, perhaps genetically based. One may emerge from the hypo, as Lincoln did, but melancholy is an indelible pa...