From
“Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst:
May 29
The presidential campaign of 1860
that elected Lincoln for the first time ‘completely failed to do what a
political campaign is supposed to do – bring the nation to a full awareness and
earnest discussion of its most crucial issues and lead to a verdict that would
put those issues on the way toward settlement. There had been nothing even
resembling an attempt by reasonable men to analyze a baffling problem and see
what could be done about it… The election would be a shock which could benefit
no one but the extremists on both sides.’
- Bruce Catton
‘Force is as pitiless to the man
who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it
crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.’
- Simone Weil
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