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Dominance can be a tempration to division. "There are so many of us, we can afford to fight amongst ourselves.
— Richard Brookhiser
Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.
— Richard Brookhiser
Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.
— Richard Brookhiser
The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.
— Richard Brookhiser
Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.
— Richard Brookhiser
She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.
— Richard Brookhiser
To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.
— Richard Brookhiser
Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.
— Richard Brookhiser
One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.
— Richard Brookhiser
Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.
— Richard Brookhiser
The towering genius is not apolitical.
— Richard Brookhiser
Most principles are limp until they are tested.
— Richard Brookhiser
If enlightened public opinion was a bulwark of freedom, then leaders must labor ceaselessly to enlighten or manipulate it.
— Richard Brookhiser
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
Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.
— Richard Brookhiser
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
Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.
— Richard Brookhiser
As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.
— Richard Brookhiser
Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later.
— Richard Brookhiser
Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.
— Richard Brookhiser
Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.
— Richard Brookhiser
Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.
— Richard Brookhiser
Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.
— Richard Brookhiser
Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.
— Richard Brookhiser
Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.
— Richard Brookhiser
Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.
— Richard Brookhiser
He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.
— Richard Brookhiser
Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.
— Richard Brookhiser
One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.
— Richard Brookhiser
The beaten path can be a busy and distracting place.
— Richard Brookhiser
Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.
— Richard Brookhiser
Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.
— Richard Brookhiser
Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?
— Richard Brookhiser
Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.
— Richard Brookhiser
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
A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.
— Richard Brookhiser
Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.
— Richard Brookhiser
notice these inconsistencies: Christian and anti-Christian polemicists
— Richard Brookhiser
Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.
— Richard Brookhiser
She became at once more intimate and more exalted.
— Richard Brookhiser
Washington offered a republican substitute for the dignity of royalty.
— Richard Brookhiser
It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.
— Richard Brookhiser
Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.
— Richard Brookhiser