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thunder”: Pennsylvania announced 44 votes for Lincoln, boosting his total to 181, only 3½ votes behind Seward’s new total of 1841/2.
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
“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 struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life. He was to call the passage of the Vo
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
And yet, during his second inaugural address in 1865, he called for “malice towards n... See more
History as an antidote to despair
“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
