What is your best one-word description of President Abraham Lincoln's character?

[David Lockmiller]

“Fortitude” is defined at dictionary.com: “the mental and emotional strength in courageously facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation.”

Five examples of Abraham Lincoln's “Shakespearean fortitude”:

1. Snow Brothers lawsuit and Dakota 38

2. little girl willing to sacrifice her life in exchange for her father's life
In subsequent posts on the same thread, Steve's research was instrumental in showing how other men's lives were also saved as a result.

3. 166th Ohio regiment speech

4."blind memorandum" (the following day)

5. Ida Tarbell on Lincoln's Reelection in 1864