Happy Birthday Mr. President

Happy Birthday Abe!!!!

A day that changed America

On today's date in 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Washington D.C. by John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford's Theater. He lingered through the evening and passed away in the early morning of the 15th.

"...I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side." Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States

Lincoln Quote of the Week

"The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose."

Lincoln Quote of the Week

"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. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."

Lincoln Quote of the Week

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Lincoln Quote of The Week

"What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?"

Lincoln Quote of the Week

“God must love the common man, he made so many of them.” - Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln Quote of the Week

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. --December 10, 1856 Speech at Chicago

Lincoln Quote of the Week

War at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible. --June 16, 1864 Speech at Philadelphia

Lincoln Quote of the Week

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives. --August 22, 1864 Speech to the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment

Lincoln Quote of the Week

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds.... "

Lincoln Quote of the Week

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."

This Day in History

On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most memorable speeches in American history. In just 272 words, Lincoln reminded a war-weary public why the Union had to fight, and win, the Civil War.

Lincoln got part of it wrong. The world does, and always will as long as the dream that is America stands, remember what was said at Gettysburg that day. And although Lincoln only spent 25 hours of his life in Gettysburg I sincerely doubt that any other day of his Presidency left such a mark on history.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Lincoln Quote of the Week

"...I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."

Abraham Lincoln

The nation will celebrate the two hundreth birthday of our sixteenth President on February 12, 2009. There are a lot of activities planned around this part of the nation in the upcoming months that you guys might be interested in so I thought I would start listing some of them in the coming months. I also will be adding some links to some neat Lincoln stuff as well. Maybe we should plan an Adventurers trip to DC for the spring. What say you men?

Lincoln Biography

Lincoln Bicentennial Commission

Lincoln Birthplace

Lincoln Grave