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Quotes from Comments on the North American Events — Karl Marx

1818–1883 Germany

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Reason nevertheless prevails in world history.

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

Lincoln's place in the history of the United States and of mankind will, nevertheless, be next to that of Washington!

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

The South has conquered nothing — but a graveyard.

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

Hegel once observed that comedy is in act superior to tragedy and humourous reasoning superior to grandiloquent reasoning. Although Lincoln does not possess the grandiloquence of historical action, as an average man of the people he has its humour.

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

The new world has never achieved a greater triumph than by this demonstration that, given its political and social organisation, ordinary people of good will can accomplish feats which only heroes could accomplish in the old world!

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

His latest proclamation, which is drafted in the same style, the manifesto abolishing slavery, is the most important document in American history since the establishment of the Union, tantamount to the tearing up of the old American Constitution.

Comments on the North American Events (1862)

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