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Happy Birthday, President Abraham Lincoln! - David Lockmiller - 02-12-2021 07:28 PM
Happy Birthday, President Abraham Lincoln!
Today, February 12, 2021, is the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday (212 years ago; on 2-12-1809).
Tolstoy said of President Abraham Lincoln in 1908: “We are still too near to his greatness, but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and too powerful for the common understanding; just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.” (Doris Kearns Goodwin’s source in Team of Rivals: Leo Tolstoy, quoted in The World, New York, February 7, 1908.)
RE: Happy Birthday, President Abraham Lincoln! - LincolnMan - 02-13-2021 08:27 AM
Still rings true!