Words from the 16th President
Cleaning out a desk drawer, I came across some quotes I collected last year when we visited the Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL. I wrote it on a hotel notepad from the "President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and Conference Center." Nice place.
Words from Abe.
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships." May 19, 1849
"Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eyes, is the great invention ... enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn at all distances of time and space." Feb. 22, 1860
"Common looking people are the best in the world, that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them." Dec. 24, 1863
"Bad promises are better broken than kept." from his last speech, April 11, 1965
Posted in: on Thursday, August 09, 2007 at at 1:05 PM
