In order to “win a man to your cause,” Lincoln explained, you must first reach his heart, “the great high road to his reason. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

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.

As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in an uncharted future.

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