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Lincoln’s words: “just what’s the matter with the whole world. I’ve got three walnuts and each wants two.”(regarding his two sons)
On democracy: “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.”

This is so good- timely; but reading is hard for me now so slow going.

Lincoln was for tariffs over taxes. “To abandon the protective tariff‘must result in the increase of both useless labor, and idleness.’” (P. 86)
Also, he was accused of being anti Christian, which he wasn’t.
This all in his first foray into politics (1846). Fascinating.