Quotes David H. Donald

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he w...

At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had revere...

But added to those accomplishments, of course, there is the ...

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for ...

But I do agree that one of Lincoln's faults was his excessiv...

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely wh...

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to...

I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for h...

I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought a...

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidenti...

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of ...

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private a...

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, a...

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or...

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much w...

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed hi...

The truth is that I already had written a good deal about Li...

Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model ...

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is ...

When I made the decision to go ahead with the project, I sai...