Lincoln died the next day, without gaining consciousness, and with him died the only protector of the prostrate South. Others might try to emulate his magnanimity; none but he could control the bitter hatreds which were rife. The assassin’s bullet had wrought more evil to the United States than all of the Confederate cannonade…[T]he death of Lincoln deprived the union of the guiding hand which alone could have solved the problems of reconstruction and added to the triumph of armies those lasting victories which are gained over the hearts of men.
Winston Churchill, The Great Democracies
Churchill was the archetypal Englishman, but he never forgot that his beloved mother was an American.
Lincoln and Churchill, the bookends to the best of our civilization.
Churchill was born only nine years after the death of Lincoln. Some of the men who saw him as an infant on his grandfather’s estate had fought at Waterloo. Churchill was a bridge for the Victorian world into the modern world.