You walk toward the Lincoln Memorial and go up and up and up layers of steps and when you finally get to the top you still look up to the giant figure seated above you. Those words are engraved over his head. What kind of man must you be for the people you serve to erect a temple to enshrine your memory?
LINCOLN on how to think about criticism:
"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
Lincoln's favorite poem. The last photograph of him alive. More HERE.
WASHINGTON on how to view trouble:
"...our affairs are brought to an awful crisis, that the hand of Providence, I trust, may be more conspicuous in our deliverance"
What Washington really looked like. A brief look at his life. More HERE.
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