“Chickens huddle together on the ground for safety; eagles ride thermals at 1800 feet alone. Which are you” – Arnold Kunst

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

August 4

One knowledgeable observer wrote in the summer of 1863: '… As to the politics of Washington the most striking thing is the absence of personal loyalty to the President. It does not exist. He has no admirers, no enthusiastic supporters, none to bet on his head. He has a kind of shrewdness and common sense, mother wit, and slipshod, low-level honesty that made him a good Western jury lawyer. But he is an unutterable calamity to us where he is.'

'We are continually buying something that we never get, from a man that never had it.'

- Will Rogers