Tag: Abraham Lincoln

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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A House Divided

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.– Mark 3:25 On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln delivered his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. The most remembered portion of that speech was this:   A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and …

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