18 Quotes by Doris Goodwin

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.