["I would banish all minor questions, assert the broad doctrine that as a nation the United States has the right, and also the physical power, to penetrate to every part of our national domain, and that we will do it— that we will do it in our own time and in our own way; that it makes no difference whether it be in one year, or two, or ten, or twenty; that we will remove and destroy every obstacle, if need be, take every life, every acre of land, every particle of property, every thing that to us seems proper; that we will not cease till the end is attained; that all who do not aid us are enemies, and that we will not account to them for our acts. If the people of the South oppose, they do so at their peril; and if they stand by, mere lookers-on in this domestio tragedy, they have no right to immunity, protection, or share in the final results..."]

Well I guess we can say he was a man of his word. He sure as heck did most all of this. Sure did a lot of comparison to Europe. Did he forget we became a nation to be unlike Europe? Oh, scuse me, he was BiPolar from many accounts.

Pam