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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

WASHINGTON - Just days after the nation honored the 200th anniversary of his birth, 65 historians ranked Abraham Lincoln as the nation's best president. Former President George W. Bush, who left office last month, was ranked 36th out of the 42 men who had been chief executive by the end of 2008, according to a survey conducted by the cable channel C-SPAN. Ref. Source 3

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The Despot Named Lincoln:

If Lincoln was so much opposed to slavery, why did he not endeavor to abolish it peacefully through a scheme of compensated emancipation? Ref. Source 3

Abraham Lincoln History & Civil Business Politics

Two Lincoln documents found in San Diego

Thanks to an archivist's curiosity and quick thinking, the San Diego History Center now has two newly-authenticated Abraham Lincoln documents. While neither contain the poetic turns of phrase the Great Emancipator unleashed on other occasions, both are making historians" pulses race. Ref. Source 5

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"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution"
-- Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln Abraham

"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."
-- Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

"Am I not destroying my enemies what I make friends of them?'"
-- Abraham Lincoln