Tuesday, August 09, 2011

quote of the day

“Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”

--Abraham Lincoln

3 comments:

Kay Dennison said...

Beautiful!!! Both sides of the aisle need to spend some time meditating on these fine words!

Thanks!

Nance said...

Oh, my, that gives me chills. Damn their ignorance and their insolence. Will London's example even be noticed, I wonder?

Lorna said...

That sounds perfectly reasonable to me.