“Every leader fights lonely battles.” – Anonymous

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