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A quotation (probably not) from Abraham Lincoln

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is, truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861–65)
Letter (1842-02-22) to George E. Pickett (forgery)

Much more about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2533…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #deceit #details #dishonesty #falsehoods #liar #lying #memory

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

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As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”*…

Today is, of course, Labor Day, a recognition of the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements in the U. S. that dates from the latter 19th century. Livia Gershon reminds us that, earlier that century, labor had an important champion…

Today, the idea that the value of all commodities comes from the labor power used to produce them is closely associated with Karl Marx. But Marx was far from the only thinker in the mid-nineteenth century to believe this. Literature scholar Owen Cantrell looks at another: Abraham Lincoln [and here].

In 1847, Lincoln wrote that goods rightfully “belong to those whose labour has produced them,” and any good government should ensure that workers receive the entire product of their labor “or as nearly as possible.”

However, unlike Marx, Lincoln saw no problem with the private ownership of property, or even of some people becoming rich. Cantrell argues that his view was the product of his own background in rural middle America. As a young man, Lincoln’s father had worked odd jobs in Kentucky, sometimes alongside enslaved laborers. This became increasingly difficult as the growing use of enslavement crowded out free workers. But he was eventually able to help his community with his carpentry skills and establish a homestead in Indiana. There, Lincoln grew up doing manual labor on the homestead and at neighboring farms.

In 1861, the newly elected president warned that slavery threatened a system of free labor in which “the prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages for awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him.”

Cantrell writes that Lincoln believed that both human advancement and political stability for the American democratic republic depended on workers’ dignity and ability to improve their conditions. He envisioned the Civil War as a fight between a slave economy that left workers powerless and a kind of capitalism in which they could use the cash economy to advance, improve production techniques, and create better material conditions for the country as a whole.

Marx had a very different view of the capitalist system, seeing wage work as the mark of an oppressed class making up the majority of industrial nations’ populations. But, like Lincoln, he saw the Civil War as an opportunity to secure better lives for all workers. When Lincoln was reelected in 1864, Marx—on behalf of the First International—wrote to him with hopes that the “American Antislavery War” would essentially function as a revolution bringing the working class to power.

In the end, the post-Civil War era did bring a new labor system, though not one for which either Marx or Lincoln had hoped. It saw the rise of large corporate employers and the consignment of an increasing part of the workforce to lifelong wage work—thanks in significant part to Lincoln’s Republican Party choosing to ally itself with the corporations.

“If he had witnessed the capitalist excesses of the Gilded Age, it would have proved the lie to his conception of capital and labor in the starkest possible way,” Cantrell writes…

Abraham Lincoln was no Marxist, but his ideas resonated—albeit with a rural American flavor: “Abraham Lincoln’s Labor Theory of Value,” from @liviagershon.bsky.social in @jstordaily.bsky.social.

If Lincoln would have been appalled at the Gilded Age, what might he think of what’s transpiring now? “How Did Trump Do on His Labor Day Report Card?” (“Spoiler alert: He flunked…” From @timothynoah.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.)

* Abraham Lincoln

###

As we take the day off, we might recall that it was on this date in 1822 that a prisoner-powered treadmill for grinding corn began operation at the Bellevue County Penitentiary in New York City, located where 26th Street meets the East River. Up to 16 prisoners at a time walked on two paddle-wheel like treadmills, grinding about 50 bushells of corn per day.

source

Abraham Lincoln, the Stone Troll

#sketch-a-day #art #graphite #AbrahamLincoln #lincoln #StoneTroll #troll #fantasy

The USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in Thailand after Mideast deployment

LAEM CHABANG, Thailand (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eas…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2024-2026Mideastwars #AbrahamLincoln #AsiaPacific #DanKeeler #DonaldTrump #FrankE.PetersenJr. #Generalnews #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #Mentalhealth #MiddleEast #Politics #RobertSmalls #Thailand #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/715632/

Thailand preps for USS Abraham Lincoln visit

PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — Thousands of American service members are about to descend on…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2024-2026Mideastwars #250thAnniversaryofAmericanIndependence #AbrahamLincoln #APTopNews #AsiaPacific #DonaldTrump #FrankE.PetersenJr. #Generalnews #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #Mentalhealth #MiddleEast #Politics #Thailand #Thailandgovernment #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/714222/

#Trump #DonaldTrump #America #USA #Song #UnitedStates #Rushmore #Music #MountRushmore #presidents #Washington #Jefferson #AI #Roosevelt #Lincoln #Funny #Harmony #GeorgeWashington #Video #ThomasJefferson #Viral #TheodoreRoosevelt #YouTube #AbrahamLincoln #USPol #Politics Trump’s clearly a basket case, and how can anyone possibly disagree with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arlEWzeZMxg&list=RDq0YtFs9VwBU&index=2&ra=m

¿Por qué la US Navy está al límite por una guerra tan larga con Irán? #USNavy #Iran #GuerraConIran #EstadosUnidos #OrienteMedio #Geopolitica #Defensa #Portaaviones #AbrahamLincoln #GeorgeWashington #MarinaDeEstadosUnidos #ActualidadInternacional #felizdomingo #23deagosto

https://donporque.com/la-us-navy-esta-al-limite-por-la-guerra-con-iran/

Long-deployed USS Lincoln being relieved by new aircraft carrier

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Asia-based USS George Washington aircraft carrier is now operati…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AbrahamLincoln #APTopNews #Asia #BradCooper #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #GeorgeH.W.Bush #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #Mentalhealth #MiddleEast #Militaryanddefense #PeteHegseth #Politics #U.S.news #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesgovernment #Us #USA #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/699036/

US Navy destroyer broke down for four days in the Pacific

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy destroyer with about 300 sailors aboard suffered a major breakdown in the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AbrahamLincoln #APTopNews #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #MatthewComer #Militaryanddefense #PacificOcean #RobertSmalls #U.S.DepartmentofDefense #U.S.Navy #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/696977/

“US Aircraft Carrier Problems Tied to Iran’s Early Strikes on Bahrain Base – NYT”

by Palestine Chronicle Staff on Substack

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“Key Takeaways;

- Iranian strikes heavily damaged the US naval base in #Bahrain, forcing the #Navy to shift a major #logistics operation thousands of miles away to #DiegoGarcia.

-The USS #AbrahamLincoln has been at sea for nearly nine months without a liberty port, amid reported supply shortages and concerns about crew mental health.

- Despite mounting logistical pressures, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insist the US can sustain its naval operations indefinitely.”

https://palestinechronicle.substack.com/p/us-aircraft-carrier-problems-tied

#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Hormuz #Empire #Collapse #US #Sanctions #EconomicWarfare #Hegemony

US pulls last aircraft carrier in Asia as Trump focuses on Iran and the Western Hemisphere

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and l…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #breakingnews #BryanClark #DarylCaudle #DonaldTrump #EvanSankey #FrankBradley #GeorgeWashington #gerald-ford #GregPoling #Iran #MichaelSwaine #NicolasMaduro #RobertFarley #TheodoreRoosevelt #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/692336/

Trump says USS Lincoln’s deployment ‘not nearly long enough’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailo…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #Generalnews #GeorgeWashington #Iran #iranwar #JasonCrow #Mentalhealth #Militaryanddefense #PeteHegseth #Politics #RichardBlumenthal #RubenGallego #Trumphub #U.S.RepublicanParty #UnitedStatesgovernment #Warandunrest #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/691674/

Trump says record-setting Navy deployment to support Iran operations ‘not nearly long enough’

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring a record-setting deployment of…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #AbrahamLincoln #breakingnews #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWashington #Iran #JasonCrow #PeteHegseth #Politics #RichardBlumenthal #RubenGallego #Washingtonnews #Worldnews
https://www.newsbeep.com/691403/

US sailors endure dire conditions on Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier

Some sailors have reportedly tried throwing themselves into the sea, basic supplies can r…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #AbrahamLincoln #afp #America #California #CenterforNavalAnalyses #GeorgeWashington #iran #JonathanSchroden #MiddleEast #navy-times #PeteHegseth #RichardBlumenthal #RubenGallego #SouthChinaSea #UnitedStatesofAmerica #USNavy #USSGeraldR.Ford
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/812931/

A quotation from Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua Speed

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #America #createdequal #DeclarationofIndependence #despotism #equality #liberty #prejudice #racism #tyranny #xenophobia

Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines America through its 15 most defining speeches https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/28/ben-rhodes-all-we-say-book #Books #ObamaAdministration #FrederickDouglass #AbrahamLincoln #FranklinDRoosevelt #MartinLutherKing #JohnFKennedy #RonaldReagan #DonaldTrump #PoliticsBooks #Culture #History #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics

Do unto others

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1960766/do-unto-others

Uncle Abe 😍

https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1843732/uncle-abe

Kaja Kallas’ poker face, Lindsey Graham cursing and Mark Rutte talking to a dog – POLITICO

Big…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/398715/

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
-- Abraham Lincoln

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AbrahamLincoln #TheFuture

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah

https://www.fogolf.com/1127514/trump-nicklaus-aim-to-revamp-military-golf-course-near-dc/ Trump, Nicklaus aim to revamp military golf course near DC #AbrahamLincoln #BarackObama #BarbaraBush #BillClinton #DCWire #decor #DistrictOfColumbia #Donald #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpGolf #DonaldTrumpGolfing #florida #GeneralNews #GeorgeWBush #GeraldFord #JackNicklaus #JoeBiden #LocalNewsForApple #Maryland #MDStateWire #MichaelThomas #MichelleObama #Politics #RonaldReagan #sports #trump #TrumpGolf #TrumpGolfing #WashingtonNews #WestPalmBeach

A quotation from Abraham Lincoln

The advice of a father to his son “Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear it that the opposed may beware of thee,” is good, and yet not the best. Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1863-10-26) to J. M. Cutts

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2191…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #anger #argument #backdown #consequences #contention #costbenefit #fight #priorities #prudence #quarrel #selfcontrol #temper #yielding

Mistigram: if you prefer for your calendar to be punctuated by arguably more significant milestones, here’s a @Horsenburger #teletext portrait of #AbrahamLincoln, “The Great Emancipator”, shared on the occasion of #Juneteenth.

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/horsenburger-abraham_lincoln/

#AbrahamLincoln #AbrahamLincoln #Horsenburger #Juneteenth #monochrome #teletext

Mistigram: if you prefer for your calendar to be punctuated by arguably more significant milestones, here’s a @Horsenburger #teletext portrait of #AbrahamLincoln, “The Great Emancipator”, shared on the occasion of #Juneteenth.

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/horsenburger-abraham_lincoln/

#AbrahamLincoln #AbrahamLincoln #Horsenburger #Juneteenth #monochrome #teletext

Mistigram: if you prefer for your calendar to be punctuated by arguably more significant milestones, here’s a @Horsenburger #teletext portrait of #AbrahamLincoln, “The Great Emancipator”, shared on the occasion of #Juneteenth.

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/horsenburger-abraham_lincoln/

#AbrahamLincoln #AbrahamLincoln #Horsenburger #Juneteenth #monochrome #teletext

Mistigram: if you prefer for your calendar to be punctuated by arguably more significant milestones, here’s a @Horsenburger #teletext portrait of #AbrahamLincoln, “The Great Emancipator”, shared on the occasion of #Juneteenth.

https://mistfunk.wordpress.com/2024/06/19/horsenburger-abraham_lincoln/

#AbrahamLincoln #AbrahamLincoln #Horsenburger #Juneteenth #monochrome #teletext