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Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln QUOTES

Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln QUOTES

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

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

2 " Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

3 " The towering genius is not apolitical. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

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

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

5 " Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

6 " To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

7 " 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

8 " Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

9 " 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

10 " She became at once more intimate and more exalted. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

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

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

12 " One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

13 " 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

14 " Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

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

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

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

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

17 " 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

18 " Most principles are limp until they are tested. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

19 " Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles. "

― Richard Brookhiser , Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

20 " 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