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The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln

Stephen L. Carter

Top 10 Best Quotes

“So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the people they hold those opinions about.”

“Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.”

“Never act surprised in a courtroom.”

“The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils.”

“The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait.”

“Our sense of history has grown dangerously thin, and our sense of proportion with it.”

“Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.”

“He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.”

“He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.”

“Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.”

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