Feb 24
I came across this a few days ago. It is amazing how things never change, and people never learn. Abraham Lincoln was a wise man that a lot of people now days could learn a lot from. It is true that if you are ignorant of history that it has a tendency of repeating itself.
March 1st, 2010 at 10:25 am
These are not legitimate Lincoln quotations. They were written by Rev. J.H. Boetcker of Erie, PA, and first published in 1916. In 1942 they were published by the Committee for Constitutional Government and attributed to Boetcker, but the other side of the published sheet contained an authentic Lincoln quote (properly attributed to Lincoln). Subsequent printings left the Boetcker citation out, and the axioms magically became Lincoln’s. The short version of all that: Lincoln didn’t say this.