Divide & Conquer
When you face an adversary who is a "fence jumper"
or "flip flopper"
Someone who wants it both ways on an issue,
smoke him out by questioning him directly,
don't give him any room for spin.
Don't let him hide behind ambiguity.
Make a clear stand yourself
then pin him down directly.
Lesson learned from A.Lincoln during his 1860 Presidential election.
Lesson studied and taught by D. Morris.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both
Congress and the Courts.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,
& you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose.
You allow him to make war at pleasure.
Government of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from the Earth.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place,
then stand firm.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any one thing.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
YOU CANNOT BUILD CHARACTER & COURAGE
BY TAKING AWAY MAN'S
INITIATIVE & INDEPENDENCE.
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
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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.
November 19th, 1863
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