Quotes by Richard Brookhiser

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Lincoln loved other peoples jokes as much as his own.

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

Dominance can be a tempration to division. There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.