#16

 

stage fright

on cannon fodder

"All men act on incentive."
- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1965]

a swift horse

There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away

Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry –
This Traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of Toll –
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human Soul 

- Emily Dickinson [1830-1866]

channeled thoughts in different direction

 Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865] went to the theatre more than 100xs during his presidency.

on the Mall

serendipity

"I will study and get ready and someday my chance will come."

- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]

just business

"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865] in a letter to Horace Greeley [1811-1872], August 22, 1862.

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

"I may walk slowly, but I never walk backward."
- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]

With malice toward none, with charity for all

"... let us strive on to. . . bind up the nation's wounds"
- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865], Second Inaugural Address

motivation

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."
- Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]

on late bloomers

“I will study and prepare myself, and someday my chance will come.”
― attributed to Abraham Lincoln although the language is modern; perhaps condensed from various sources.

move!

"The true course in conducting military operations, is to make no movement until the preparations are complete."
- General George McClellan, who was ousted by Lincoln for inaction and replaced by alcoholic, last in his West Point class Ulysses S. Grant who won the Civil War

on God

"In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, but one must be wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Keep silent and be thought a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Don't trust anyone who hasn't failed."

"A nation with little regard for its past will do nothing in the future to be remembered."
- Abraham Lincoln

Pre-Presidency

"Little known and mostly laughed at."

drunk history

Drunk History Vol. 5 w/ Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle & Zooey Deschanel from Will Ferrell

human paradox

"Let us have the hero of Lincoln at least as an aspiration for others who want to be leaders of America—to think that he was perfect helps us to strive for perfection."
- Mario Cuomo on the fallible Abraham Lincoln

Ranking of U.S. Presidents here.