Quote of the Day

“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it, ‘all men are created equal, except Negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’ When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for example, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” – Abraham Lincoln, to longtime friend Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855