Saturday, February 05, 2005
The Words of Abraham Lincoln - Still Ring True Today
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and cause me to tremble for the sake of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and 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 all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
-----------Abraham Lincoln, 1864
Our 16th president can provide a great example to the current Bush administration on how to effectively heal the wounds of our divided nation and join together highly partisan/divisive parties. Following the end of the Civil War (when our nation was at its most divided), President Lincoln successfully planned for peace and unity in our divided nation --- He was “...flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion....”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html.
His second Inaugural Address further embodied his true beliefs and intent -- and are now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.:
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle....- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
As an aside, Abraham Lincoln also was the president who said: “..."What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" ...” at his Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860.
If you want more information about this truly great president, I recommend the following website: http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
-----------Abraham Lincoln, 1864
Our 16th president can provide a great example to the current Bush administration on how to effectively heal the wounds of our divided nation and join together highly partisan/divisive parties. Following the end of the Civil War (when our nation was at its most divided), President Lincoln successfully planned for peace and unity in our divided nation --- He was “...flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion....”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html.
His second Inaugural Address further embodied his true beliefs and intent -- and are now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C.:
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle....- to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
As an aside, Abraham Lincoln also was the president who said: “..."What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?" ...” at his Lincoln's Cooper Institute Address, February 27, 1860.
If you want more information about this truly great president, I recommend the following website: http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
# posted by Lawchick2005 @ 2:55 PM 
