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Abraham Lincoln. Dude was president at a time when half the country preferred war to abandoning slavery. His life was under constant threat by his enemies. In his personal life, two of his sons had died in childhood and he was struggling with crippling depression.
And yet, during his second inaugural address in 1865, he called for “malice towards... See more
And yet, during his second inaugural address in 1865, he called for “malice towards... See more
History as an antidote to despair
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master,” Lincoln wrote in 1858. “This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
“Abraham Lincoln seems to me the grandest figure yet, on all the crowded canvas of the Nineteenth Century.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
It was, Lincoln was saying now, about democracy and equality. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” Lincoln said in words that would live ever after. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether
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