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He Knew Lincoln
11-01-2021, 02:28 PM
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David,

As long as I have studied Tarbell, I have come to the conclusion that she pretty much nailed Lincoln's thoughts. The italicized passage you quote is certainly within Lincoln's thought process. The issue of slavery far outweighed the political fortunes of one man. Of course Lincoln was an ambitious politician, but he also realized that no one man is indispensable and it's the cause that matters.

Besides, whether Lincoln ever said it is irrelevant. What's relevant is whether or not be believed it. I think he did.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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He Knew Lincoln - Gene C - 12-08-2017, 08:40 AM
RE: He Knew Lincoln - David Lockmiller - 10-31-2021, 11:21 AM
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