There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.

Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.

Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.

Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it.

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.