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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cAmerica will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”<\/p>\n
“How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Washington, DC…A Bit of Wisdom from our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln for Presidents Day. Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 \u2013 April 15, 1865 \u201cAmerica will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.\u201d “Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188359,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172918\/revisions\/188359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}