Ocupation: 16th U.S. President
Life: February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
Birthday: February 12
Death: April 15
So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.
source: "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854
topic: Selfish, Mistake, Men, American Slavery, Slavery In America, Be A Slave