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Edited on Mon Nov-17-08 06:00 PM by joeunderdog
The following are quotes from Abe Lincoln, all of which were neglected or rejected by GWB. Much of this wisdom is already being incorporated into action by Obama who said on 60 Minutes that he is reading Lincoln during his transition. See if you can connect the dots...
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. (Are you listening, George?)
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - - and you allow him to make war at pleasure... The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood.
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 the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed. Wow!
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Bush could have studied a man who lived and died for the better good. Instead, he read My Pet Goat.
Most above quotes gleaned from wisdomquotes.com
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