Word: lincoln
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...just in science. Brevity is the first principle of rhetoric too, and perhaps the most violated. Visit the Lincoln Memorial and see two of the greatest speeches in American history (the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural), each inscribed in its entirety on a part of one wall...
...course the Lincoln-Douglas debates were great. But their time has passed. Modern political debates are a travesty of the form. Indeed, their main purpose is to produce the one sound bite--"I knew John Kennedy, Senator..."--that will register on the evening news. Sound bites are what we do best. Let's give them honor...
...even the good old days could tire of loquaciousness and appreciate the fine bite. Stephen Douglas, after all, made it into the Macmillan Dictionary of Political Quotations with "Sit down, Lincoln, your time...
When it comes to talking about race relations in America, Bill Clinton may well be the most eloquent white politician since Lincoln. But his calls to action have often substituted for action itself. Which is why, as Clinton prepares to unveil his much trumpeted initiative on race relations this week, civil rights leaders are having no difficulty containing their enthusiasm...
...bombing. The back reveals a tree with droplets of blood for leaves, and underneath is a 1787 inscription by Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." The front of the shirt shows a picture of Abraham Lincoln's face as if displayed on a wanted poster, and it is accompanied by the Latin phrase shouted by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater after he assassinated the Civil War President. Translation: "Thus always to tyrants...