I’m a huge fan of Wikipedia and I signed up to get the article of the day via email mainly so I could get the quotes (although I’ve grown to love pretty much the whole thing).
I thought today’s was good and since it came from one of our great statesmen, I’ll share.
“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.” — Abraham Lincoln
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“Hey Douglas — You SUCK!”
I was at the UNITE/HERE building and they had at least one forcefully pro-labor quote from Lincoln. It was something so strong I would have had a hard time imagining FDR or Truman even saying it.
This is the one that comes to mind (for me at least, maybe we have some UNITE-HERE readers?)
“The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.”
It’s from a letter AL wrote to the NY Workingman’s Association in 1864
“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name – liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names – liberty and tyranny.” The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, “Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland” (April 18, 1864), p. 301-302.
“My Dear McClellan:
If you are not using the army, I should like to borrow it for a short while.
Yours respectfully,
Abraham Lincoln.”