The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

Do not only believe, affirm and act the sacred words of God.

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

a good product is not the secret to success

He couldn't put on a coaching session to save his life. I've spoken to people about him and he can barely lay out cones.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy.

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals, the two things seem to go together, it is a pathology it is a sickness.

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself.