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| Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial Washington, DC |
On politics in the US, its hard for me to resist posting this picture of the one American president who’s quotes I have followed and loved for a long time.
Abraham Lincoln, the man who opposed the expansion of slavery in America, and successfully led the country during the Civil War was mostly self-educated. But his intelligence, wit and humor, were second-to-none.
A lot of us now use his quotes as status updates on our social profiles, but not all of us know just how many were uttered by this one man.
This post is essentially a collection of some of my favourite Lincoln-isms. Give it up for Lincoln, our man!
o 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.
o If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
o If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
o Whatever you are, be a good one
o No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
o A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
o You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
o In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
o You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
The statue of Lincoln in the picture above is cast in marble and sits in the central chamber of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
