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Tag Archives: Abraham Lincoln
Presidents: “it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, on Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence: All honor to Jefferson, to the man who had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, … Continue reading
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Abraham Lincoln: “All honor to Jefferson”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, on Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence: All honor to Jefferson, to the man who had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, … Continue reading
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Abraham Lincoln: “All honor to Jefferson”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, on Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence: All honor to Jefferson, to the man who had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, … Continue reading
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Lincoln: “You must kneel to God only”
Excerpt from Jay Winik’s April 1865 The next day, April 4 [1965], brought an equally stunning sight. While General Grant was off in hot pursuit of Lee’s army, President Abraham Lincoln, in a high silk hat and long black coat, … Continue reading
Lincoln, 1865 “My God! My God!”
Excerpt from Jay Winik’s April 1865: On March 24, [1865] the Union president came to City Point, to meet with his highest lieutenants General in Chief US Grant, General William Tecumseh Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter to … Continue reading
Lincoln, 1865: “with charity for all”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, March 4, 1865 Inaugural address With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind … Continue reading
4 Score …
The last book I read was The Trouser People, an extremely depressing book about Burma or Myanmar. (Of course the book is depressing. How could one write an uplifting and sunny book about a savage military regime that cuts deals … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln
Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. There’s a time-warp going on. The country is now screaming at one another, once again, arguing over which is the correct and righteous path to take. We aren’t shooting at each other yet. D.J. Tice, … Continue reading