Abraham Lincoln Quote

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.


The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1858-1862 (ed. 1862)


I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question...

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question...

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question...

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question...