Today's Quote

"Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish."

--A Lincoln - 2nd Inaugural

hat tip = driftglass

Mr Lincoln was breaking the rules. He was supposed to say something stupidly passive - something like:

"The south keeps yelling about how white people are just better than black people, and slavery is what the good lord intended so the masters could prosper while improving the negroes' debased and inferior nature (a bit - let's not get carried away)."

"While the north is yelling that slavery is cruel and sinful, and it's not OK for southerners to come north hunting runaways, and sometimes kidnapping free men and selling them as chattel."

"So the only real problem is that both sides are yelling."

Mr Lincoln would never make it in USAmerica Inc these days.