From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
January 19
Logical inconsistencies did not get
past the razor-sharp mind of Abraham Lincoln. During the Lincoln-Douglas
debates in 1858 Lincoln dismissed Douglas’s argument with devastating effect.
‘Any attempt to twist his views into a call for perfect social and political
equality with Negroes was but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by
which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.’
- Abraham Lincoln
‘A remark generally hurts in
proportion to its truth.
- Will Rogers
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