| Show lincoln s legacy A great man leaves the world two legacies one is the ideal which inspires young people to become more serviceable and rind wo the other comprises those speeches of common oense and idealism Ide alLm that wo we remember and re pat and revere because the great man eald said them in n time they become part of the thought ot of those who repeat teem and have an influence upon their lives buch such are thomas jefferson jeffersons e let error be tree free so long aa as truth Is tree free to combat it if theodore roosevelt Roosevel ts the me law of worthy life ta is fundamentally the law ot of strife and benjamin franklin a I 1 diligence I 1 in the mother of good luck pew men have left a richer legacy leguy of the second form thon Abra liam lincoln put this nugget from the mine of his understanding jp tip somewhere in a place where you will see it every day cl y stand with anybody that stands right bland stand with him while he 13 1 right and part with I 1 un im when he goes I 1 wrong only the rare and the great man is 1 able to do that here are the two tests when the one you dislike most sass ea something right ran can you take his side when the one ome sou ou admire and like best Is on the wrong elde aide docs does the fact that you like him blind you to the error everyone has his pt hate it may be a man in public life a newspaper a writer of books or an attitude ot of mind when he meets it it acts like a red lag flag to rt d bull the test of that person character Is whether he can recognize the right when it comes from one tit of liu his hates you cant lo 10 0 ery far in we life without meeting the problem lem the easy thing to W do is 1 to condemn all the ideas of those with whom yott dis disagree arree in the main maim most people dont don t like the ideas of the ones they don dont t like they abey judge I 1 leas acs on the basis of who said them everone Is a mixture of truth and error even liven the people we me dislike only a silurian brained individual can get up a pure unadulterated hate others catch the occasional gleam of goodness and truth that Is present in the worst emerson says somewhere that a man Is cultured I 1 as soon as ho he sides with his critic against himself with ith joy similarly a man beans beg ns to bome great in the abi coln cense sense of the word when hen he at the place where he can stand with anybody that stands right as n long as they ire are right without regard to his likes and dislikes |
