(12-06-2013, 10:34 PM)LincolnMan Wrote: Just think how many will consider Obama's statement profound- not knowing that it was not an original statement but one borrowed from 148 years ago.
The fact that it was borrowed doesn't lessen the profoundness of the statement. Many of Lincoln's words were borrowed from others and yet we see him as a profound thinker. "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
"And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." Mark 3:25.
"this hath all the distinctions of a house divided against itself . . " Thomas Paine.
"a kingdom divided in itself cannot stand."
Thomas Hobbes
Best
Rob
