Food for thought! Abraham Lincoln Today

[Matt Macoubrie]

I think Lincoln's thoughts regarding welfare, as were probably the thoughts of most folks at the time, could be summed up in the words he wrote to his half-brother, John Johnston. If you're able bodied - go find some means of gainful employment. Don't sit back and expect the Government, or anyone else, to provide for you.

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Lincoln couldn't get nominated by any party nowadays, if only because of his looks.

I wrote this article for Lincoln's birthday this year: Would Abraham Lincoln Be a Democrat Today?

By the way, I myself belong to no political party.

What a great article!!! And Rob it is okay to disagree, but I don't think my question determines what political party I am a part of! Because of hypotheses (which was my question) we couldn have found answers to historical data. The benefit of this exercise is to analyze and hypothesize, which are the roots of who we as historians are!!!!