Abraham

I can be by myself because I’m never lonely, I’m simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

me doing stand up: and what about the rain? when she comes here she cleanses us, and is good. we love the rain.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

In 1816 his parents, Thomas and Nancy, took their family north across the Ohio river, partly to get secure title to leave but also to escape from slave society – Thomas belonging to a strict Baptist sect that abhorred slavery. The land that Thomas acquired in Indiana was virgin forest. That winter Abe, aged seven, spent most of the time, axe in hand, helping clear the trees so they could plant corn the following spring.