![]() I can make more generals, but horses cost money. 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. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run. You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. I don’t know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. 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. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.Ĭommon looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them. That is my religion.Ī house divided against itself cannot stand.Īmerica will never be destroyed from the outside. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. Cats (Tabby and Dixie were two of their names)įour score 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.īetter to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. ![]() Dogs (Fido and Jip were two of their names).Member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1834-1842).Member of the US House of Representatives from Illinois (1847-1849).Cause of Death: Gunshot wound to the back of the head.Place of Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois.
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