The Pendragon's Hall

"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

--Abraham Lincoln

Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. The above quote from the Great Emancipator certainly illustrates the danger America has always faced, now as then. Even the most deadly of terrorist attacks could not destroy the fabric of this nation...but our own decadence and corruption may well do so. It is a sobering lesson and one not to be ignored by the wiseacres of the day.