In honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, I am going to begin posting a Lincoln biography in @LEGO_Group. Please follow along and share with anyone who might be interested. I'm planning 150-200 scenes. I'll start with the first 2 today and will post them periodically over the next few months.

#DailyLincoln #102 "It is an old maxim and a very sound one, that he that dances should always pay the fiddler." - Abraham Lincoln, January 11, 1837

#DailyLincoln #101 From the diary of James A. Garfield: He [Thaddeus Stevens] expostulated with President Lincoln against the appointment of [Simon] Cameron as Sec'y of War, and intimated rather broadly that Cameron was dishonest. Lincoln says, "You mean to intimate that Cameron would steal?" "Well," said Stevens, "I do not think he would steal a hot stove." This was too good to keep and Lincoln told Cameron of it. Cameron called on Stevens and complained bitterly of his attack and Stevens promised to take back what he had said. He then called on L incoln land said, "I have come up to take back what I said about Cameron. I am inclined to think I was wrong in saying he would not steal a hot stove."

#DailyLincoln #100 "Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost." - Abraham Lincoln, March 9, 1832

#DailyLincoln #99 "Even in this view, I am proud, in my passing speck of time, to contribute an humble mite to that glorious consummation, which my own poor eyes may not last to see." - Abraham Lincoln, ca. July 1858

#DailyLincoln #98 "School-boys know that Wilberforce, and Granville Sharpe, helped that cause forward; but who can now name a single man who labored to retard it? Remembering these things I can not but regard it as possible that the higher object of this contest may not be completely attained within the term of my natural life. But I can not doubt either that it will come in due time." - Abraham Lincoln, ca. July 1858

#DailyLincoln #97 "If I had had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this, but we find it still continues; and we must believe that He permits it for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with our limited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it." - Abraham Lincoln, October 26, 1862

#DailyLincoln #96 "In the very responsible position in which I happen to be placed, being a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father, as I am, and as we all are, to work out his great purposes, I have desired that all my works and acts may be according to his will, and that it might be so, I have sought his aid." - Abraham Lincoln, October 26, 1862

#DailyLincoln #95 "Uncle Abe ... made us a visit the other day. The boys cheered him and he asked them if they wasn't afraid the rebs would shell them. They said no but they wished somebody would shell out some greenbacks!" Pvt. Charles L. Hewitt, 7th Conn. Inf., June 25, 1864

#DailyLincoln #94 "The lady—bearer of this—says she has two sons who want to work. Set them at it, if possible. Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged." - Abraham Lincoln, October 17, 1861

#DailyLincoln #93 "He was a self made man, the architect of his own fortune. And the American people—indebted to themselves for themselves, saw in him, a full length portrait of themselves. In him they saw their better qualities represented—incarnated, and glorified—and as such they loved him." - Frederick Douglass, June 1, 1865 h/t @LincolnDouglass

#DailyLincoln #92 "This lady, Abigail C. Berea, had a husband and three sons in the war, and has been a nurse herself, without pay, during nearly the whole war. Her husband was killed at Gettysburg, and one of her sons also has died in the service. One other son she is willing to leave in the service where he still is, but the youngest, James H. Benjamin, private in Co. K. 104 N.Y. vols. and who is in poor health, she asks to have discharged. Let it be done." - Abraham Lincoln to Edwin Stanton, October 15, 1863

#DailyLincoln #91 "Capt. Dahlgren may let 'Tad' have a little gun that he can not hurt himself with." - Abraham Lincoln to George B. McClellan, October 14, 1862

#DailyLincoln #90 "As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affect[at]ion if I were to begin it now?" - Abraham Lincoln to Grace Bedell (age 11), October 19, 1860

#DailyLincoln #89 "I am not looking for reelection. I expect more trouble and difficulty before my present term ends than will be the share of any one man. But I am trying to do right." - Abraham Lincoln, June 8, 1862

#DailyLincoln #88 "Your letter makes us a little uneasy about your health. Telegraph us how you are. If you think it would help you make us a visit." - Lincoln to Robert T. Lincoln, October 11, 1864

#DailyLincoln #87 On this day in 1857, Lincoln defended a 70-year-old widow named Melissa Goings, who was on trial for the murder of her husband, Roswell. The two had been living “rather disagreeably” for some time when, on April 14 of that year, they got into a fight over whether or not to open a window. Roswell allegedly tried to choke Melissa; she responded by whacking him in the head with a stick of firewood. As the trial got underway, Mrs. Goings was nowhere to be found. A court officer accused Lincoln of encouraging her to escape, but Lincoln denied the charge. “I didn’t run her off,” he said. “She wanted to know where she could get a drink of water, and I told her there was mighty good water in Tennessee.”