“ The author describes Lincoln's attitude in making a deal with a newspaper publisher as, "almost defiant transparency. Harold Holzer
“ His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity. Harold Holzer
“ The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel. Harold Holzer
“ One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS. Harold Holzer
“ Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald. Harold Holzer
“ A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with informati… Harold Holzer
“ The author says that though the Mexican War wound down, the interpretation of it was just beginning. Harold Holzer
“ President-elect Lincoln to his confidants: "The people of the South do not know us. They are not allowed to receive Republican papers down there. Harold Holzer
“ We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley Harold Holzer
“ Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed. Harold Holzer
“ James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means. Harold Holzer
“ At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts. Harold Holzer
“ Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton. Harold Holzer
