“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was the greatest.” – Muhammad Ali

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

September 10

In the late summer of 1864 a group of disgruntled party leaders, convinced that Lincoln was doomed to failure in the coming election, called for another convention to gather in Cincinnati at the end of September to choose another nominee. They included men whom Lincoln considered friends, men who had been the recipients of Lincoln's largesse. With Republicans in open revolt against their own candidate, the Democratic New York World editorialized that it was hard to tell what hurt Lincoln the most - the frontal blows from his 'manly opponents' or the stabs in the back from his friends.

'The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.' 

- Dag Hammarskjöld