Great means big. * Lincoln preserved the Union (what Lincoln himself said his main task was) leaving a much stronger state. * He did it by successfully fighting a years-long bloody war much larger than any in Europe in 1815-1914, while at the ... read more
Hitler, like Lincoln, held that this was the struture of the American republic-- not a republic of soevereign nations; and Hitler claimed that this was also true for the states of Weimar republic, in his actions to establish rule over them. read more
DiLorenzo embarrasses Jaffa in this book by pointing out passages in Hitler’s Mein Kampf in which the German leader expressed both his support for Lincoln’s war and his unwavering opposition to the cause of states’ rights and political decentralization (which, as a dictator seeking absolute power, he naturally sought to overturn in Germany). read more