Abraham imcoln Author:James Daugherty It was certain that out of the womb of American Democracy a man should come to the nineteenth century, the common normal type in full stature, of the casual humorous pioneer, not in the land-frontier sense merely but much more in horizons infinite, a familiar person, ingenious in all Yankee capacities for all dilemmas, a young growing tree, a sl... more »ow sounder-out of meanings and drifts in a time of confusion or any time in the troubled birth of the Union.
...A man to be lifted up by the choice and faith of the people exalted and alone to bear the intolerable burden and crown of thorns,never too exalted to be the compassionate individual friend.
Hated, threatened reviled more bitterly by his own than by the enemy till weary, triumphant and purified at last joining an immortal army of farmer boys forever marching into the western sky.
Abraham Lincoln - he who happened to be a little more than another the average all-inclusive type of tolerant democratic man.« less