For all his greatness, Abraham Lincoln wasn’t much of a prognosticator. Lincoln, born on this date in 1809, managed to give the worst prediction in the history of speechmaking when he said in the Gettysburg Address, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here.” Today, that address ranks as one history’s […]
“How bad do you want to be good?” — quoted by Patty Sullivan Let’s start with a trick question today, the 200th anniversary of the birth of President Lincoln. Why do we celebrate Lincoln’s birthday? You’re tempted to say we do it because Lincoln was a great president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and saw […]