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“Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating “all the elements of the Republican party—including the impracticable, the Pharisees, the better-than-thou declaimers, the long-haired men and the short-haired women.”
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow

“Elizabeth Blair of brother Frank: he could “not let even a great man set his small dogs on him without kicking the dog & giving his master some share of the resentment.”
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow

“Simon Cameron: “I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life’s success—but he died bravely in the discharge of his duty.”
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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