Here are a few more Lincoln quotes: how does Donald Trump, as well as your other favorite heroes and villains, stack up against The Best?
Enjoy!
Arnold Kunst
Introducing Abraham Lincoln to the 21st Century
www.AbeLincolnNow.com
- “I shall try to correct errors where shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.” - Abraham Lincoln
- “I am not ashamed to confess that 25 years ago I was a hired laborer, hauling rails, at work on a flatboat – just what might happen to any poor man’s son. I want every man to have a chance.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is the drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause… On the contrary, assume to dictate to his judgment, or to command his action, or to mark him as one to be shunned and despised, and he will retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and his heart; and though your cause be naked truth itself… you shall no more be able to reach him, than to penetrate the hard shell of a tortoise with a rye straw.” - Abraham Lincoln
- “In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve…Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just - a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.” - Abraham Lincoln
- [Lincoln] “treated Negroes as they wanted to be treated - as human beings... Negro visitors to the White House were treated without false heartiness, but without any sign of disdain. Never condescending, Lincoln did not talk down to Negroes, nor did he spell out his thoughts in one-syllable language of the first reader.” - Frederick Douglass [ex-slave
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