Tag: Abraham Lincoln

Working It

If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling about from place to place can do no good. Abraham Lincoln in a letter to John D. Johnston, November 4, 1851. …

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On President’s Day

Norman Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech, the first of the Four Freedoms series, appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on this day in 1943. Based on remarks in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union Address, the four freedoms referenced were Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and …

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