While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
President Abraham Lincoln never lost his ardor for the United States to remain united during the Civil War.
No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer.
Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
It is therefore not to be wondered at that Lincoln's single term in the House of Representatives at Washington added practically nothing to his reputation.
Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.
If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.
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