Thanksgiving

President Abraham Lincoln

Born: February 12, 1809 Hodgenville, Kentucky
Died: April 15, 1865Washington, D.C.

Sixteenth President of the United States 1861-1865.

Successfully led the country through the Civil War and was assassinated five days after the South surrendered.

His only other national elected office was one term in the House of Representatives 1847-1849.

All of us, individually and collectively, have much to give thanks. I would like to dedicate my blog this week to the man who proclaimed the last Thursday of each November to be a national day of Thanksgiving. Abraham Lincoln was, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest men in the history of the United States. I will post some of the wisdom made by this inspirational statesman each day for the next week. Learn and enjoy!

“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.” The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1995), pp. 258-259.

“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”

“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it.”

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe. “