The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had — no matter what.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.

I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.

Angels are 'beings of light' and therefore travel at the speed of light.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?