Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.
Doris Kearns GoodwinStichwörter: idealism attitude compromise
It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, "he observed, "that he realizes the fearful responsibility of the American people to the nations of the whole earth, to carry successfully through the experiment... That men are capable of self-government.
Doris Kearns GoodwinAnd Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.
Doris Kearns GoodwinStichwörter: lincoln intuitive
Tolstoy went on to observe,"This little incident proves how largely the name of Lincoln is worshipped throughout the world and how legendary his personality has become. Now, why was Lincoln so great that he overshadows all other national heroes? He really was not a great general like Napoleon or Washington; he was not such a skillful statesman as Gladstone or Frederick the Great; but his supremacy expresses itself altogether in his peculiar moral power and in the greatness of his character.
"Washington was a typical American. Naopoleon was a typical Frenchmen, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country--- bigger than all the Presidents t,ogether. We are still too near to his greatness, " Tolstoy concluded, "but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and too powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when it's light beams directly on us.
An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.
Doris Kearns GoodwinStichwörter: education lifelong-learning
We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.
Doris Kearns GoodwinStichwörter: marriage parenthood
One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase every day.
Doris Kearns GoodwinStichwörter: compassion empathy confidence personal-growth leadership
A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline might take them.
Doris Kearns GoodwinStichwörter: inspirational educational
For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed intimates of the Kennedy family and many who knew Franklin Roosevelt, a leader perhaps as indispensable in his way as was Lincoln to the social and political direction of the country. After living with the subject
Doris Kearns GoodwinLincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;
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