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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 26 “The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I haven’t read.” – Abraham Lincoln

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25 January “I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free.” – Abraham Lincoln

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 24 “Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary if you falter and give up you will lose the power of keeping any resolution and will regret it all your life.” – Abraham Lincoln

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 23 “And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 22 “Fellow citizens: I have been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet like the old woman’s dance. I am in favor of the national bank; I am in favor of the internal improvement system and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected I shall be thankful; if not it will all be just the same.” – Abraham Lincoln [aged 23]

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 21 “One doesn’t have a sense of humor. It has you.” – Larry Gilbert

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 20 They say that Senator Benjamin Wade kept a sawed-off shotgun in his desk in the Senate chamber during the Civil War. Just in case.

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 19 Logical inconsistencies did not get past the razor-sharp mind of Abraham Lincoln. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858 Lincoln dismissed Douglas’s argument with devastating effect. “Any attempt to twist his views into a call for perfect social and political equality with Negroes was but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse.” – Abraham Lincoln

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From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 18 After losing the Senate race to Stephen Douglas, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, in 1858, Lincoln said he felt like the boy who stubbed his toe: “it hurt too bad to laugh and he was too big to cry.”

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“From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst January 17 You say you will not fight to free the Negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you, but no matter. Fight you, then, exclusively to save the Union.” – Abraham Lincoln

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