Monday, May 2, 2011

Something to Sleep On

Abraham Lincoln kept three documents near his desk.

The King James Bible, the Constitution, the works of Shakespeare.

One of his favorite passages was from Henry V.  The Welsh Captain Owen Glendower brags about his leadership to Hotspur saying,

"I can call spirits from the vasty deep."

"Well so can I  and so can any man," Hotspur replied, "but when you call them will they come?

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