Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as a rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
Source: address to joint session,Congress on Abraham Lincoln's 150th birthday, 1959, Cong.Record, vol. 105, p. 2265.
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