Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
Here are some of our favorite Lincoln-isms to help celebrate what would have been Honest Abe’s 203rd birthday:
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At the Gettysburg cemetery: ”…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.”
Photo credit: Alexander Gardner [Public domain
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.”
“If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.”
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
