I’ve been reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals – The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. It strikes me…we as Republicans spend a significant amount of time talking about Ronald Reagan…and I’m a great admirer of his. However, I don’t really hear much mention at all of the greatest Republican (and greatest President), Abraham Lincoln. I think this is a shame.
While we should honor President Reagan as a great President, let’s never forget that we will always be “the party of Lincoln.”
Here are a few of my favorite quotes of his, selected because they seem to be especially timely:
· "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
· "I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
· " The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
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