So surely did Lincoln midwife this process of social transformation that we look back at the United States before Abraham Lincoln and after him.
The meanest man in the world, he remarked, is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties.
Tolstoy went on to observe,This little incident proves how largely the name of Lincoln is worshipped throughout the world and how legendary his personality has become. Now, why was Lincoln so great th...
With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.
More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.
More accustomed to relying upon himself to shape events, he took the greatest control of the process leading up to the nomination, displaying a fierce ambition, an exceptional political acumen, and a...
York boss William Barnes issued an acid personal attack: Mr. Roosevelt’s departure for Chicago was inevitable. Undignified as it is, and impotent as it will prove to be, its chief interest lies in the...
Modernizing the postal service was particularly important for the soldiers, who relied on letters, newspapers, and magazines from home to sustain morale.
Spring had come to Washington. The cherry blossoms were in bloom. Yet the glacial mood of the capital refused to melt. Accusations
Meanwhile, he continued to speak out on behalf of black citizens. In March 1846, a terrifying massacre took place in Seward’s hometown. A twenty-three-year-old black man named William Freeman, recentl...
Tolstoy went on to observe, This little incident proves how largely the name of Lincoln is worshipped throughout the world and how legendary his personality has become. Now, why was Lincoln so great t...
Avoid dull facts; create memorable images; translate every issue into people’s lives; use simple, everyday language; never use big words when small words will do. Simplify the concept that we are tryi...
Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;
Lincoln warned, the lawyer must not rely on rhetorical glibness or persuasiveness alone. What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, the...
The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem.
The history of governments, John Hay later observed, affords few instances of an official connection hallowed by a friendship so absolute and sincere as that which existed between these two magnanimou...
Lincoln never forgot that in a democracy the leader’s strength ultimately depends on the strength of his bond with the people. In the mornings he set aside several hours to hear the needs of the ordin...
There is no one left; none but all of us.
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...
No man is superior, unless it was by merit, and no man is inferior, unless by his demerit.
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