I’m laughing at reading everybody’s responses and okay I get the irony. But I still think he would’ve said it because the larger point remains. Transformations created at the ballot box are more profound for a society in the long run than is the assassination of any one person.
Assassinations were planned for Lincoln before he even announced his candidacy. The first try was narrowly avoided on his way to D.C.The reason: civil rights that the South wanted to avoid. See bradmeltzer.com/Nonfiction/T…