The majority of the great fortunes were won not by doing evil, but as an incident to action which has benefited the community as a whole.
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...
So surely did Lincoln midwife this process of social transformation that we look back at the United States before Abraham Lincoln and after him.
Roosevelt declared, arguing that the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.
Refuse to let past resentments fester; transcend personal vendettas.
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...
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-...
If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides of a troubled situation, Lincoln urged a mo...
If I wasn't busy, she replied, I'd go crazy.
I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
His one passion was for the game of golf, which Roosevelt found excruciatingly dull and slow.
Generations of historians have agreed with Holmes, pointing to Roosevelt’s self-assured, congenial, optimistic temperament as the keystone to his leadership success.
For nearly two years, under Lyndon Johnson’s domestic leadership, Republicans and Democrats had toiled together to engineer the greatest advances in civil rights since the Civil War and to launch a co...
Fearing that Taft would be too reticent on the stump, Roosevelt barraged him with incessant advice. Do not answer Bryan; attack him! he counseled in early September, adding, Don’t let him make the iss...
Everything, a journalist observed, tended to represent the home of a man who has battled hard with the fortunes of life, and whose hard experience had taught him to enjoy whatever of success belongs t...
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 chaotic and pot...
By anchoring his arguments firmly in history and law, he opened an antislavery approach that differed from the tactics of the allies of Garrison, who eschewed political organization, dismissed the fou...
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.
—The Dallas Morning
When I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.