34 Quotes by Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.