Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating, "all the elements of the Republican party—including the impracticable, the Pharisees, the better-than-thou declaimers, the long-haired men and the short-haired women."


Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005)

Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes

Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating, all the elements of the Republican party—including the impracticable,...

Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating, all the elements of the Republican party—including the impracticable,...

Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating, all the elements of the Republican party—including the impracticable,...

Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating, all the elements of the Republican party—including the impracticable,...