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It’s a Free Country. For How Much Longer?
04-09-2024, 01:07 PM
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RE: It’s a Free Country. For How Much Longer?
(04-09-2024 12:14 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  When I argue with you, David, it always takes me back to my childhood, given that I gave up your viewpoint of Lincoln at age 8 for a more mature picture of who he was. I do think you would be money ahead to buy a book on how idioms are used. I'm sure a city as big as San Francisco has a few bookstores. Maybe try to find a book that presents a more mature and nuanced view of Lincoln while you're at it.

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Why buy a book? One can Google online "err on the side of caution" and select dictionary.com from the options available.

idiom: to reduce risk by planning or acting more carefully than might seem absolutely necessary.

for example: Budget for all your known expenses, but err on the side of caution by also allowing funds for unforeseen circumstances.

"So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch
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04-09-2024, 01:26 PM
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RE: It’s a Free Country. For How Much Longer?
You should buy a book because he did not write "Err on the side of caution."

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
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04-09-2024, 02:06 PM (This post was last modified: 04-09-2024 02:07 PM by David Lockmiller.)
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RE: It’s a Free Country. For How Much Longer?
(04-09-2024 01:26 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  You should buy a book because he did not write "Err on the side of caution."

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You are right. My post #3 reads: Lincoln erred on the side of governmental strength.

Lincoln was not at all excessive in the exercise of government strength to ensure that the New York troops did arrive in Washington to protect the national government.

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