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Wherein Jon and Ruth ponder such things as America, culture, food, travel, Chicago, and other such things.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Lincoln of the Day

"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it."

From the "house divided" speech at the Illinois Republican State Convention, 1858.
Posted by Jon Ryan Quinn at 7:59 AM

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