Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

The vice presidency “ought to be abolished,” he told his friend Leonard Wood. “The man who occupies it may at any moment be everything; but meanwhile he is practically nothing.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail,” Abraham Lincoln said, “without it nothing can succeed.” Such a leader is inseparably linked to the people. Such leadership is a mirror in which the people see their collective reflection.

Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;