“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.” - Patrick Henry

 From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst 

March 25 

In the run-up to Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 the country was in a state of apoplexy. At one of his stops along his route to Washington from Illinois Lincoln said, “why all this excitement - why all these complaints? As I said before, this crisis is all artificial. It has no foundation in facts. It was not argued up as the saying is and cannot therefore be argued down. Let it alone and it will go down of itself.”