[BOOKS] - ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY GR BENSON

14/10/2013

1. ”As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy” – Abraham Lincoln.
2. Lincoln discovered that marriage is “a field of battle and not a bed of roses” a battle in which we are forced to suspect that he did not play his full part.
3. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, as it appears to me.
4. Lincoln’s judgement – If slavery is not wrong nothing is wrong.
5. Lincoln said “By God, body’s, let’s get away from this. If ever I get a chance to hit that thing, I will hit it hard.
6. Great advantage in having one’s choice restricted by circumstances to good books.

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