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Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Dominance can be a tempration to division. “There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
She became at once more intimate and more exalted.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Any man’s life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
The towering genius is not apolitical.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Most principles are limp until they are tested.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln loved other people’s jokes as much as his own.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.
— Richard Brookhiser, Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
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