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Born 210 years ago today: Abraham Lincoln
Posted on 2/12/19 at 9:58 am
Posted on 2/12/19 at 9:58 am
Here’s a piece in Forbes today about the depression and failure he overcame after his first (unsuccessful) run in Washington.
Thank God he made a comeback, and thank God he was elected President. LINK /
quote:
Now, in his early thirties, Lincoln faced personal financial struggles. His support of improving infrastructure improvements was blamed for the poor economy in Illinois. He also broke off his romantic relationship to Mary Owens because he felt unable to support her. In 1842, he decided against seeking a fifth term in the legislature.
quote:Yikes.
Lincoln’s depression was so bleak his friends worried he was going to commit suicide, and they removed knives, razors and scissors from his room.
Thank God he made a comeback, and thank God he was elected President. LINK /
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Posted on 2/12/19 at 10:04 am to xiv
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Abraham Lincoln
meh, more myth than man
Posted on 2/12/19 at 10:05 am to xiv
A nice fellow I'm sure, but a tyrant.
Posted on 2/12/19 at 10:06 am to xiv
Abe “the raysis” Lincoln?
Posted on 2/12/19 at 10:09 am to xiv
272 Words...
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
November 19, 1863
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
November 19, 1863
Posted on 2/12/19 at 10:48 am to xiv
People like to blame Johnson for big gov't. It started with Lincoln.
Posted on 2/12/19 at 11:05 am to xiv
One of the worst dictators the world has seen.
Posted on 2/12/19 at 11:24 am to xiv
Abraham Lincoln - The ringleader of the war of northern aggression.
History may remember him fondly, I do not
History may remember him fondly, I do not
Posted on 2/12/19 at 5:21 pm to xiv
Man could kill some vampires fo sho.
Posted on 2/12/19 at 6:06 pm to xiv
Born 62 years ago today: my brother.
Who looks suspiciously like user craigbiggio's avatar:
Not really relevant to the topic, but I found it interesting nonetheless. Carry on.
Who looks suspiciously like user craigbiggio's avatar:
Not really relevant to the topic, but I found it interesting nonetheless. Carry on.
Posted on 2/12/19 at 9:08 pm to xiv
Sorry, but his removal of Habeas Corpus knocks him down a couple of rungs for me.
Posted on 2/12/19 at 9:17 pm to xiv
Posted on 2/12/19 at 9:19 pm to xiv
mortem omnibus tyrannis
Posted on 2/12/19 at 11:53 pm to xiv
Are Democrats still trying to pretend that abe was really a Democrat?
Posted on 2/13/19 at 9:06 am to xiv
My pappy said son you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln.
ETA: Has Lincoln lived the South would not have had to endure the economic war known as Reconstruction.
ETA: Has Lincoln lived the South would not have had to endure the economic war known as Reconstruction.
This post was edited on 2/13/19 at 9:28 am
Posted on 2/13/19 at 11:04 am to xiv
Celebrate the birthday of that Yankee dictator?
No thanks.
No thanks.
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