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TOMBS WITH A VIEW

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A stroll about Old Calton Burying Ground has set us thinking. 

What had Abraham Lincoln to say in troubled times? 

We offer five quotations below, unedited and out of context. 

Draw your own conclusions. 

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.