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The beloved son of Abraham Lincoln did not come away from his childhood and young adulthood without picking up a thing or two from his old man.
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“Now, as then, there can be but one supreme issue, that between right and wrong. In our country there are no ruling classes. The right to direct public affairs according to his might and influence and conscience belongs to the humblest and the greatest. … But it is times of danger, critical moments, which bring into action the high moral quality of the citizenship of America. The people are always true. They are always right, and I have an abiding faith they will remain so.”
-- Robert Todd Lincoln, 1896, Galesburg celebration
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[Source: Allen C. Guelzo, “ Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America”]
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“Now, as then, there can be but one supreme issue, that between right and wrong. In our country there are no ruling classes. The right to direct public affairs according to his might and influence and conscience belongs to the humblest and the greatest. … But it is times of danger, critical moments, which bring into action the high moral quality of the citizenship of America. The people are always true. They are always right, and I have an abiding faith they will remain so.”
-- Robert Todd Lincoln, 1896, Galesburg celebration
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[Source: Allen C. Guelzo, “ Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America”]
