My reading was always a kind of living, he explained later, a longing to know some man or men stronger, braver, wiser, wittier, more amusing, or more desperately wicked, than I was, whom I could come...
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.
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...
The histories and tragedies of Shakespeare that Lincoln loved most dealt with themes that would resonate to a president in the midst of civil war: political intrigue, the burdens of power, the nature...
There will be some one at the White House whom you will like more than me, Roosevelt had predicted during his final meeting with the press corps, but not one who will interest you more.
There is now nothing left for me except to try to so live as not to dishonor the memory of those I loved who have gone before me.
Our party, he declared, stands for the right of property and the right of liberty, for institutions that have stood the test of time, and for an economic system that rewards energy, courage, enterpris...
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
—The Dallas Morning
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...
We should constantly be reminded of what we owe in return for what we have.
Within the coming decade alone, three signal amendments would be added to the Constitution: the Sixteenth, giving the national government the power to levy a progressive income tax, without which many...
For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond wisely to changes and movements already under way. The worst, the le...
Beneath Lincoln’s tenderness and kindness, he was without question the most complex, ambitious, willful, and implacable leader of them all.
Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and stress. Indeed, when he is com...
Scholars who have studied the development of leaders have situated resilience, the ability to sustain ambition in the face of frustration, at the heart of potential leadership growth.
No man resolved to make the most of himself, can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper, and the loss of self-...
He cannot speak clearly if his words must be strained through a Congressional gag.
The key to Lincoln’s success was his uncanny ability to break down the most complex case or issue into its simplest elements. He never lost a jury by fumbling with or reading from a prepared argument,...
While Abraham, gifted with physical agility and uncommon athletic prowess, had to make his mind, Teedie, privileged beyond measure with resources to develop his mind, had to make his body.
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