“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.” - Will Rogers

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