Quotes About National trial

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

Human nature will not change," Lincoln said in response to a serenade in 1864. "In any future great national trial," he predicted, Americans would find people who were exactly "as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good" as those who lived in his day.