Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the countrys cause. – Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one. – Abraham Lincoln
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the countrys cause. – Abraham Lincoln
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. – Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln
The crow in his purity I believe is seen and heard only in the North. Before you reach the Potomac there is an infusion of a weaker element, the fish-crow, whose helpless feminine call contrasts strongly with the hearty masculine caw of the original Simon. – John Burroughs, “Winter Sunshine”