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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 16 Abraham Lincoln couldn’t stand the prospect of wringing the neck of a chicken and yet ironically found himself in the intolerable position as Commander in Chief of actively willing the continuance of a war that was resulting in the deaths of thousands and thousands of men.

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 15 “How miserably things seem to be arranged in the world! If we have no friends we have no pleasure; and if we have them we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.” – Abraham Lincoln

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 14 “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” – Daniel J. Boorstin

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 13 “A speech is poetry, cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.” – Peggy Noonan

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 12 In 1861 the British minister to the United States, Lord Richard Lyons, dismissed the newly inaugurated Lincoln as “a rough farmer” who displayed “an ignorance of everything but Illinois village politics.”

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 11 “I do the very best I know how and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.” – Abraham Lincoln

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 10 “There is no Frigate like a Book to take us Lands away.” – Emily Dickinson

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 9 “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst: January 8 “If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence for a conviction?” – Anonymous

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 7 “You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” – Abraham Lincoln

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