"[Alfred the Great's] unique importance in the history of English letters comes from his conviction that a life without knowledge or reflection was unworthy of respect..."
Sir Frank Stenton
"Eliminating every black person from American soil would be a glorious consummation."
quote by Abraham Lincoln.
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
quote by Abraham Lincoln
"Free them (blacks), and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit to this... We cannot, then, make them equals."
I'm not sure if that is an accurate quote. On the website http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.226/pub_detail.asp I read as follows about that misquote: "In making the charge of racism, DiLorenzo sounds like an especially nasty liberal. He frequently distorts the meaning of the primary sources he cites, Lincoln most of all. Consider this inflammatory assertion: "Eliminating every last black person from American soil, Lincoln proclaimed, would be 'a glorious consummation.'" Compare the nuances and qualifications in what Lincoln actually said: "If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation." One need not be a Lincoln admirer to recognize that DiLorenzo is making an unfair characterization. DiLorenzo actually gets so overwrought that at one point he attributes to Lincoln racist views Lincoln was attacking.
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"Eliminating every black person from American soil would be a glorious consummation."
quote by Abraham Lincoln.
"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."
quote by Abraham Lincoln
"Free them (blacks), and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit to this... We cannot, then, make them equals."
quote by Abraham Lincoln
I'm not sure if that is an accurate quote. On the website http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.226/pub_detail.asp I read as follows about that misquote: "In making the charge of racism, DiLorenzo sounds like an especially nasty liberal. He frequently distorts the meaning of the primary sources he cites, Lincoln most of all. Consider this inflammatory assertion: "Eliminating every last black person from American soil, Lincoln proclaimed, would be 'a glorious consummation.'" Compare the nuances and qualifications in what Lincoln actually said: "If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation." One need not be a Lincoln admirer to recognize that DiLorenzo is making an unfair characterization. DiLorenzo actually gets so overwrought that at one point he attributes to Lincoln racist views Lincoln was attacking.
What is the source of this quote you attribute to Grant? I have been studying Grant for some time now and I have never come across it.
It was cited in the book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
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