Famous Lincoln Quotes

Abraham Lincoln  At first Lincoln and America were reluctant emancipators, but slavery soon imposed it's own purposes on both our president and on this nation. America was largely indisposed to respect the humanity of the African-Americans here and paid for that sin with death and destruction. Our obtuseness was made manifest in the Jim Crow laws and attitudes of a century later.

A greatly fallen human race is rarely as honorable as the principles which it espouses and even Abrahan Lincoln had growing to do in that regard. His words reflect his growth as the Great Emancipator.

• "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." (House Divided Speech, June 16, 1858)
• They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not exist among them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist among us, we should not instantly give it up." (Speaking of Southerners, Springfield, Illinois in October, 1854)
• "When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith tells me that 'all men are created equal' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another." (Springfield, Illinois, October, 1854)
• "I want every man to have the chance - and I believe a black man is entitled to it - in which he can better his condition, when he may look forward and hope to be a hired laborer this year and the next, work for himself afterward, and finally to hire men to work for him. That is the true system." (Speech at New Haven, March 6, 1860)

 Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address pointed a grieving nation to the mystery of divine providence.

"He invoked a fiery biblical quotation: "Woe unto the world because of offences! For it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh!" (Matthew 18:7). Lincoln used Scripture this time as an indictment of slavery and a formal charge against the American people...."

If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." Emphasis added. 

NPS: Antietam battlefield

"By saying American slavery, he asserted that North and South must together own the offense. Lincoln understood that the people of the South would never be able to take their full places in the Union if they alone were saddled with the guilt for what Lincoln asserted was the national offense of slavery"

The Democrat Reaction to the GOP Budget




Bernie Sanders; on the left.

 Neal Boortz  "The reality is that even if the federal government got rid of all foreign aid and earmarks, "we'd still have a huge problem, because most of our budget goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and defense spending, about 70 percent of the budget. Everything else we do is only about 30 percent of the budget." That's not a quote from Rep. Paul Ryan who just proposed his budget plan. That's not even a quote from a Republican. That's a quote from Barack Obama, our esteemed Community Organizer. I bring this up to show that Democrats, including Obama, are aware that entitlement spending is perhaps THE issue we are facing fiscally."   More Boortz: Taxing Our Way Out of This Mess  


http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/bobgorrell


This should make the entire situation clear to anyone: 

Chuck Schumer; also on the left

"Suppose you and your spouse are arguing about your finances. You have discovered, to your horror, that you are spending $1,400 per month over and above your total household income. Terrified, you inform your spouse that this is completely insane and unsustainable, and that it must stop immediately.
"Your spouse nods in nominal agreement — but then digs in his or her heels against every single specific spending cut that you propose." Then...

http://terrellaftermath.com/

How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Bombmaker

STRATFOR  "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the fifth edition of its English-language jihadist magazine “Inspire” on March 30. AQAP publishes this magazine with the stated intent of radicalizing English-speaking Muslims and encouraging them to engage in jihadist militant activity. Since its inception, Inspire magazine has also advocated the concept that jihadists living in the West should conduct attacks there, rather than traveling to places like Pakistan or Yemen, since such travel can bring them to the attention of the authorities before they can conduct attacks, and AQAP views attacking in the West as “striking at the heart of the unbelievers.”" A tad scary and it lets us know that we are all at war.
How to Tell if Your Neighbor is a Bombmaker is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

When she was with us, my mother would find out our trip plans and invariably send us newspaper clippings about terrible things that had happened to people who did just what we had planned. We all took it with good humor and it is still funny today. This is neither that nor an Archie Bunker-like view. Think of it as more of a what- the-Columbine-shooters'-parents-should-have-known kind of article.