Abraham Lincoln has been considered by some to be the greatest President America has had to date. Yes, he was great, but he was a lawyer after all. I still think that George Washington was the greatest overall. But I still love stories about honest Abe. Including this one:
“All of his clients knew that, with honest Abe as their lawyer, they would win their case—if it was fair; if not, that was a waste of time to take it to him. After listening one day to a would-be client’s statement, with eyes on the ceiling, Abe swung around in his chair and exclaimed:
My wife has been asking me what I want to do now that I’m retired. The other night I woke up at about 2 or 2:30 with a thought on my mind. It seemed important to me at that time in my groggy condition. So what did I do? I got out of bed, went into my office, found a scrap of paper and a pencil and wrote down my thought.
I always think it’s interesting that George Washington solemnly stated that it would be unwise to have political parties. He thought we should all be Americans and want what’s best for America. Little did he know that Americans disagreed on that score more than on the weather.
It’s interesting how much emphasis and importance all of the Founders put in the idea of Freedom and Liberty. They even warned us to take good care of the things they left for us.
One thing about Benjamin Franklin is that he finished much better than he had started out. If you’ve read his Autobiography, which I hope by now you have, you know that Ben left his family, his brother’s printing business, and his city of Boston, at the early age of 17. And that with only a few pennies to his name.
One of Franklin’s favorite sayings was: “All education is self-education.” Meaning you must develop personal learning habits in your personal and professional life. We should fill our minds with reading and then process what we have been reading and learning.
Yesterday I advised you not to become a snollygoster. Then I went to my dictionary and defined snollygoster for you. It is a clever unscrupulous person. A person who is smart and clever, but who has no scruples.
Wow. Who has ever used that word in normal conversation?
Some of the Democrats are complaining that too many in America get ahead just because of luck. Therefore, the abundance they receive should be subject to division around the citizenry. The lucky didn’t really deserve it. The unlucky should take part in the good luck by forcing the government to take such lucky proceeds and dividing them up among the less fortunate. Wow, how do they come to that conclusion?