Doris Goodwin Quotations

she said. ''I don't want to sound embarrassing, but he looks sensual.

He feared that if the South should succeed in leaving the Union, it would prove to the world that ordinary people could not govern themselves.

he may be able to say something good in the weeks ahead, but at least as it appears right now, that moment that calls for the president has passed.

His whole philosophy was not to waste precious energies on recriminations about the past

I think that's what is possible, that somehow her protest and her vigil will make more people empathize with the casualties than have previously done so.

When I first began working on my Lincoln book, nearly a decade ago, he generously invited me to his home so I could peruse his fabulous Lincoln library. He sat with me for hours, suggesting which sources were the most important to begin my journey.

These are the kinds of moments when a president gives voice to the country. They're remembered forever, if it's done right.

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,

Somebody said of Chase that he understood men as as a whole but not individual man.

It really stands by itself. I certainly don't know of any other like it.

That's the difficulty. We don't know what to do with the peace movement, what does it actually mean?

In a second prepared statement, two directors, a retired pilot and a former executive of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, condemned the AMFA attack as ''totally misguided.

I hope I will be more empathetic and less quick to judge,

If there was somebody you'd want to spend a night with, aside from Lincoln, it would be Seward. He reminded me a lot of (Winston) Churchill, this kind of larger-than-life figure.

His book on Lincoln is not only a classic in the field ... it is a treasured resource,

But if more mothers and more women connect to the losses over there, it could move like wildfire across the country.

By that time, I felt so emotional toward him. He didn't know, but I knew, that it wasn't going to last.

You can see how a story like that would make people relax.