Doris Goodwin Quotes (16 Quotes)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Historians say we won't know Cindy Sheehan's place in the war until the war itself is history. And whether you agree with her or not, she sits waiting for one conversation, and has unleashed another.

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

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

Team of Rivals The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln,

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.