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Psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Coles at Beloit College in Wisconsin: "The people who gave us America were people who stood up and said, 'I believe what I believe, and I'm ready to die for that faith.' Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln? The only thing that makes this...
...Abraham Flexner published the now well-known "Flexner Report" on medical education, which criticized medical schools for lacking admission standards, proper facilities, and qualified instructors. His fundamental idea was that medical education should be based on the learning of fundamental concepts in the field which could be applied by professional doctors...
...struggle to lift America out of the Depression. John Kennedy's first year was one of almost continuous defeat, but fortunately, it was a year also marked by unceasing experiment in diplomacy and military improvement. In the American legend, the discouragements with men and War heaped on Abraham Lincoln in his early years of the Civil War sent him into fits of melancholia. But he always climbed out and tried again. He did something. That is not the least of the characteristics that kept Richard Nixon at the center of our political life for nearly 40 years. Even today...
...unions. Others fought for civil rights in an age when the color barrier kept blacks out of state colleges and the World Series. Radicals lived on the barricades then: leading strikes, tangling with cops, even shipping out-3,200 of them in 1936-to fight against Franco as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Wasn't that a time...
...Security Council may have been the biggest cause of his ineptitude. Reagan is at his worst when he is thumping his Bible and counting God among his Cabinet. He had best heed some old advice. "I am concerned to know not whether the Lord is on my side," said Abraham Lincoln, "but whether I am on the Lord's side...