Rohn Federbush's Blog, page 28

Lincoln Speech to House, January 12, 1848: “…besides this open attempt to prove by telling the truth what he could not prove by telling the whole truth, …so that I cannot be silent if I would.”

Lincoln lecture, 7-1-1850, “Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbor to compromise whenever you can. Point out to them how the nominal winner is often a real loser – in fees, expenses, and waste of time. As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will be business enough.”

Lincoln, “Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving graces, too proud to pay to the God that made us: It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness on Thursday 30thof April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer.”

Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day.

Lincoln, House remarks, 1-5-1848, “If he had been out of order in what he had said, he took it all back so far as he could. He had no desire, he assured them, ever to be out of order – though he never could keep long in order.”

Lincoln, “He knows not where he is. He is bewildered, confounded and miserably perplexed.”

Lincoln, “There was (no) dispute as to the facts, the dispute was confined altogether to the inferences to be drawn from those facts. It was a difference not about facts, but about conclusions.”

Lincoln speech, 5-29-1856, “…for unless popular opinion makes itself very strongly felt, and a change is made in our present course, blood will flow---and brother’s hands will be raised against brother.”

Delivered before the First Republican State Convention of Illinois, Bloomington, Illinois.

Lincoln letter, 4-26-1846, “I felt, that for them now to meet face to face and converse together was the best way to efface any remnant of unpleasant feeling, if any such existed.”

To James Berdan, Springfield, Illinois

Lincoln speech, 7-16-1852, “In this country one can scarcely be so poor that, if (they) will, (they) can acquire sufficient education to get through the world respectably.”

Eulogy for Henry Clay, State House of Springfield, Illinois

Word Power1977

Come with your vestibule of words,             soften the ebb of my internal tide. Whisper of dew and delights.             Never speak of affection or promises.
Just sing of what is new.             Share your family and friends. Fill my stricken state with syllables             and people cells. Block out every hint
of two. Be plural with me, so I can perform as one.