Quote of the Day: The Good Republican

On President Lincoln:

Remember also that he was plain, funny, kind, withdrawn. He could talk up a storm or be as quiet as the prairie on a still night. He sounded like a backwoodsman, even in high hat. Up close, it was impossible to fear him. His heart broke over fallen birds and fallen men. He could get fired up or fed up. He was absentminded. He was slow to act. Straining, he grew out of his prejudices. He wrote like a poet. He laughed like a hyena. He cried real tears. Everything about him was real.

Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr., Philip B. Kunhardt III, Peter W. Kunhardt from the introduction to Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography. Now we wait once again for a man from Illinois to turn us away from the darkness.
Photo: Abraham and Tad Lincoln, February 9, 1864 by Mathew Brady