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Learning From Abraham Lincoln's Struggles
05-31-2022, 09:49 AM
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RE: Learning From Abraham Lincoln's Struggles
(05-30-2021 09:37 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  
(05-29-2021 06:47 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  One of my favorites. Here is some more interesting background on the origin:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass

From the same speech, Abraham Lincoln, democracy's political philosopher, states:

"To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization."

This concept is now being played out in Ukraine. How will it end?
"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch
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