“Remove the sandals from your feet for you stand on holy ground.” – The Bible

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

December 15

'A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.'

- Abraham Lincoln

'Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.'

- Woodrow Wilson