Word: lincolnisms
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...find it disturbing that so much importance and significance is ascribed to Martin Luther King Day here on the Harvard campus, while Presidents' Day (including Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays) is largely ignored...
Martin Luther King did a great service to his country, but he is certainly not on the same level as Lincoln and Washington. Without Washington, we never would have won the Revolutionary War, nor would we be governed by the Constitution we have today. In short, our country would not exist...
...legalized abortion springs from the moral decision that toleration of the practice outweighs all competing claims of justice. This is best illustrated by the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, in which Stephen A. Douglas claimed he would tolerate slavery even though he personally opposed it. Abraham Lincoln correctly replied that a neutrality claim embodies an antecedent moral judgment. Once cannot adopt neutrality towards something he opposes, Lincoln said, because "no man can logically say he doesn't care whether a wrong is voted up or voted down.... [I]f it is a wrong, [one] cannot say people have a right...
...Vermont where he captured 14 percent of the vote.ALBANY, N.Y.: Jack Kemp endorsed Steve Forbes this afternoon, saying that the publishing heir and flat-tax champion best embodied "progressively conservative" ideals. Kemp compared the GOP today to the splintered party unified more than a century ago by Abraham Lincoln. He added that Forbes' "platform of inclusion" was the most likely to position the party for long-term strength. Kemp tempered his endorsement by stressing that he was not campaigning against Dole, but his announcement will hurt the Kansas senator in tomorrow's New York primary. Kemp, a former New York...
...nationalistic nostalgia. Last week he apostrophized the faces on Mount Rushmore as those of fellow protectionists, and he was right. George Washington was a Buy American booster who boasted that he drank only U.S.-brewed ale, and Thomas Jefferson came over to that side as President. Both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt assailed free trade. T.R.'s view: "Pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber...