“Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.”
― America's First Daughter
― America's First Daughter
“Oh, yes. I remember all our duets.” “I have been hearing them, lately. In my sleep. Realizing that my whole life has been, in some sense, a song that could never be sung without you. There is almost nothing I’ve ever been that I could’ve been without my dear and beloved daughter, the cherished companion of my early life, and nurse of my old age.”
― America's First Daughter
― America's First Daughter
“In these pursuits Lincoln was committed to what Theodore Parker defined as the “American Idea,” which was a “composite idea…of three simple ones: 1. Each man is endowed with certain unalienable rights. 2. In respect of these rights all men are equal. 3. A government is to protect each man in the entire and actual enjoyment of all the unalienable rights….The idea demands…a democracy—a government of all, for all, and by all.”
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
― And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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