If you want to test a man's character?

[kentuck]

[guillaumeb]

1. Perhaps Trump should hire someone to take this test. eom

[UpInArms]

2. My favorite Lincoln quote:

“We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood… It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.”

https://www.truthorfiction.com/abraham-lincoln-quote-about-capitalism-and-corruption/

[alwaysinasnit]

4. Very prescient.

[Wounded Bear]

7. The Civil War was when corporate American really solidified itself...

Several corps are still around that got their start then.

[Augiedog]

3. I couldn't agree more.

[DRoseDARs]

5. There's disagreement Lincoln ever said that himself, rather Ingersoll said that ABOUT Lincoln.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll

His essay on President Abraham Lincoln:
https://www.bartleby.com/400/prose/1827.html

Paragraph 10:

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except upon the side of mercy.

[Deuce]

8. Yep...

[iluvtennis]

6. So true. Michelle Obama said something of similar ilk:Being President Doesn't Change Who You Are, It

Being President Doesn't Change Who You Are, It Reveals Who You Are

[raccoon]

9. "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
—Lord Acton.

Another good quote for these times.

I still remember the first time I ever heard that quote, in my history of civilization class many decades ago.