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rilke 21-Dec-08, 20:55	Abraham Lincoln quotes "A House divided against itself, cannot stand."
rilke 21-Dec-08, 21:00	Whatever "Whatever you are, be a good one"
rilke 24-Dec-08, 08:28	Ballot "The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
rilke 17-Jan-09, 22:00	Whatever "Whatever you are, be a good one."
rilke 25-Jan-09, 11:15	All I am "All I am. or can be, I owe it to my angel mother."
coopershawk 25-Jan-09, 21:13	right makes might "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860
rilke 14-Jun-09, 21:21	walker " I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
rilke 27-Oct-09, 09:37	More Lincoln quotes "Leaving nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."
obsteve 11-Nov-09, 06:09	Spotted in Brecht's Messingkauf Dialogues ' Like Lincoln, "When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally". '
coopershawk 11-Nov-09, 19:49	Odd for a Republican "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed."
coopershawk 15-Nov-09, 21:03	hope "Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?"
coopershawk 19-Nov-09, 21:21	Falsely attributed quotes Ten quotes often attributed to Lincoln, but in fact written by Willam Boetker, a Presbyterian minister. Lincoln was never this simplistic or given to the use of the fallacy of false dichotomy. 1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. 2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong 3. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. 4. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. 5. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. 6. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. 7. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. 8. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. 9. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. 10 You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.
rilke 27-Jul-10, 12:25	enemy " The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend ."
elphinstone 02-Aug-10, 23:33	Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum "At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. 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."
rilke 17-Oct-10, 23:50	secession and anarchy Plainly,the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
rilke 12-Jun-11, 10:57	I am success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

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