Originally Posted by BassoonPlatoon

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by Ward Hill Lamon

Penned at a time where those who had lived to know President Lincoln were all passing away, so it was critically to get these thoughts down on paper. So, he finds someone whom was as close to the President as he could find that was still alive and wrote down what that person had to say on the subject.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.