Comments on: Today is Lincoln’s birthday

By: TJ

TJ — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 19:17:23 +0000

The project of the Left proceeds by extraordinarilly classic means: divide us to rule and conquer us.

Decline is Obama’s and now Biden’s signature accomplishment.

Now come it’s institutionalized division through CRT.

The ultimate beneficiary becomes mastery of the world: the Left declares that every global problem demands a global solution, from climate change to racism!
https://www.fpri.org/article/2011/10/sovereignty-or-submission-liberal-democracy-or-global-governance/

To the victors belong the spoils of international world government: fascism sold to everyone as beneficial, needful socialism.

All now now down to our future masters! All Hail Caesars!

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:23:06 +0000

huxley,

I had no idea that poem was about Lincoln. And I’m no kid!

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 03:18:21 +0000

I too am a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln. At several points in my lifetime I’ve studied him, and I have yet to find any “cause” for him becoming who he became. No sign of a mentor or teacher. He seems to be one of those people who came into the world fully formed. A truly amazing human!

By: Stephen St. Onge

Stephen St. Onge — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 22:07:24 +0000

The quotation about secrets, “It’s not me who can’t keep a secret. It’s the people I tell that can’t,” reminds me of a story about Frederick the Great.

The year was 1756, and Frederick, believing he would soon be attacked by Austria, decided to strike first. As he prepared to leave for the front, a courtier came up and asked where the troops were marching to. Frederick leaned down and whispered “Can you keep a secret?”

“Yes, your majesty!” replied the courtier.

“Good,” said Frederick. “So can I.”

By: huxley

huxley — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 02:33:39 +0000

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it. We — even we here — hold the power, and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.

–Abraham Lincoln, (December 1, 1862)
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When I read the words of Lincoln, it’s hard for me not to believe in God and the greatness, which lies within humanity and occasionally emerges in the Course of human events.

By: Paul Nachman

Paul Nachman — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:57:47 +0000

Art Deco wrote, “Note, the Jacobin types the Democratic Party succors are implacably hostile to people of accomplishment, such as those who built this country at every level.”

That brings to my mind one of the comments at Ammo Grrrll’s PowerLine post yesterday …

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-414.php

Here’s the part of the comment that impressed me, especially its first sentence:

“People today don’t realize the sacrifice that others made so they can hate their country without fear of retribution.

“America is truly a special place.

“If we lose it, the world will not see its like again for a long time, if ever.”

http://disq.us/p/2mrngks

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:57:44 +0000

Those who voted for Biden fall into two camps; the ideological fanatics to whom DNW refers and the hoodwinked. The former are ideological fanatics. Peaceful coexistence is impossible with the fanatical. Some portion of the hoodwinked can be saved, the rest will refuse to see regardless of how obvious the truth.

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not [refuse to] see.” Leonardo da Vinci

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:13:49 +0000

When I was in school I had to memorize the Gettysburg Address. And if you’re ever in DC, go up into the Lincoln Memorial and read the excerpts of his second inaugural address. We had a country. It was founded in blood and rededicated in blood. We’re losing it.

By: John+F.+MacMichael

John+F.+MacMichael — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 21:35:08 +0000

Art Decor @1:07 PM, the Lincoln statues are already being torn down. Statues of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt in downtown Portland were torn down in October of 2020. Also the statue of an elk for some reason. The city government did nothing to stop it and, so far, have done nothing to put them back up.

By: expat

expat — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 20:56:21 +0000

Powerline has 2 good pieces on Lincoln today.