Famous Richard Brookhiser Quotes

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

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

  • Lincoln loved other people’s jokes as much as his own. – Richard Brookhiser

    Lincoln loved other people’s jokes as much as his own.– Richard Brookhiser

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

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

  • She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional. – Richard Brookhiser

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

  • The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs. – Richard Brookhiser

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

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

    Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.– 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 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 had a stubborn concern for first principles. – Richard Brookhiser

    Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.– Richard Brookhiser

  • Most principles are limp until they are tested. – Richard Brookhiser

    Most principles are limp until they are tested.– 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

    It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.– Richard Brookhiser