Sublime

“Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty,” Henry Demarest Lloyd

time, his native caution and precision with language—he rarely said more than he was sure about, rarely pandered to his various audiences—gave Lincoln great advantages over his rivals,

restive.

In the end, though Lincoln’s role was not fully recognized at the time, he was the one who kept his fractious party together when an open rupture might easily have destroyed his administration before it could even begin. By privately endorsing Seward’s spirit of compromise while projecting an unyielding public image, President-elect Lincoln retaine

“Abraham Lincoln seems to me the grandest figure yet, on all the crowded canvas of the Nineteenth Century.”

redoubtable

JACK NICKLAUS

Later Eleanor said, “Whatever I have become had its seed in those three years of contact with a liberal mind and a strong personality.”