[Petronski]

"I'll say it this way - winners write history," said Ron Bryant, a Lexington historian writing a book on Davis. "We need heroes, we need villains. Lincoln became a hero and Davis a villain."

Lincoln was a hero, and Davis made himself a villain.

[Pelham]

Lincoln took the same position as George III when it came to secession.

[stand watie]

lincoln was a "hero" in exactly the same way that sewage is "clean".

fwiw, lincoln was NOTHING more or less than wee willie klintoon's "evil twin", separated by 140 years. BOTH would SAY/DO/ADVOCATE ANYTHING to "get ahead". NEITHER had the morals of an alley-cat.

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