"Self-made or never made," says one of the apologists for Lincoln's
ruggedness of character and outward air; at an early political meeting,
when asked if he were self-made and he answered in the affirmative, the
rough critic remarked: "Then it is a poor job," as if it were by
nature's apprentice. But in 1860, when friends reproached him for the
lack of "Old Hickory" Jackson's sternness, he replied nobly:
"I am just as God made me, and cannot change."
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