34 Quotes by Richard Brookhiser

Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later.

Washington offered a republican substitute for the dignity of royalty.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.