Mentions (8)
"I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid."
"The actual gay historical figures usually had wives to act as cover (Abraham Lincoln)."
"He was reading 150+ year old book written after the civil war about how horrible Abraham Lincoln was for using federal law to control other states. I was a fervent Tulsi Gabbard supporter at the time (it was 2018 or 2019) and got in some heated political discussions that really soured the mood, but "
"In the 1800s your average American was familiar with Shakespeare, or at least aspired to. Abraham Lincoln would quote Shakespeare in his stump speeches, or even in jury trials. If a politician quoted King Lear in 2024 they would be laughed at, it's almost unthinkable."
"Lincoln was a man of whom a nation has a right to be proud; he was a Christ in miniature, a saint of humanity, whose name will live thousands of years in the legends of future generations."
"Party alliances be damned, America's one consistency besides being fat is it's reverence to tall presidents. Washington? 6'2". Lincoln? 6'4". Even wheelchair-bound FDR was 6'2"."
"6. 6 year old Teddy Roosevelt attending Abraham Lincoln funeral (1865)"
"As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should pre"