I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. — Quoted

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“I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.”

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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

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