Sunday, October 18, 2009

Perspicacity for the Day: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

- If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we under stand it.
- This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
- I feel somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh.
- Common-looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

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