Let None Falter Who Thinks He is Right

How prescient of Old Abe.

Truer words could not be spoken, even today.

How many charlatans in Congress have stabbed the country in the back and made light of it. I, for one, will stand with Old Abe and NEVER give in to the wretches who think they can defeat my country by usurping its power, turning their flaming words on loyal citizens and honorable leaders, and then expect me to bow down to them.

It is better to die on my feet, than to kneel to their tyranny, any day, any week, any year, any time.

I despise Congress and the Press.

Subsunk

Posted by Subsunk at February 12, 2009 3:27 PM

How prescient of Old Abe.

Truer words could not be spoken, even today.

How many charlatans in Congress have stabbed the country in the back and made light of it. I, for one, will stand with Old Abe and NEVER give in to the wretches who think they can defeat my country by usurping its power, turning their flaming words on loyal citizens and honorable leaders, and then expect me to bow down to them.

It is better to die on my feet, than to kneel to their tyranny, any day, any week, any year, any time.

I despise Congress and the Press.

Subsunk

Posted by Subsunk at February 12, 2009 3:27 PM

How prescient of Old Abe.

Truer words could not be spoken, even today.

How many charlatans in Congress have stabbed the country in the back and made light of it. I, for one, will stand with Old Abe and NEVER give in to the wretches who think they can defeat my country by usurping its power, turning their flaming words on loyal citizens and honorable leaders, and then expect me to bow down to them.

It is better to die on my feet, than to kneel to their tyranny, any day, any week, any year, any time.

I despise Congress and the Press.

Subsunk

Posted by Subsunk at February 12, 2009 3:27 PM

It looks like Lincoln, but the hair seems artificial. The hairline is way too 'hard'. Was it a wig?

Posted by ahem at February 13, 2009 5:27 AM

This Daguerreotype is Lincoln. The face matches in every respect, and the jaw is displaced to his left from a childhood horse kick. Then there are the ears.

How fortunate we are to have it.

And it is wonderful to hear opinion and committment so sharpened. That is what we have lost in the erosion of time, in what Burkhardt called 'the domestication of individuality'.

Posted by at February 13, 2009 8:25 AM