Quotes by : Richard Brookhiser

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

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

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

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

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

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the....

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.