V for Vendetta

"I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you."

-- "Valerie," V for Vendetta (film)

Abraham Lincoln

We can see Lincoln’s aversion to the dysfunctional lifestyle of some of the rural white poor, when, in 1848, his step-brother asked him for a loan so that he could move and try his luck in another state. We can see in Lincoln’s personal message the relentless and exhaustive logic of his reasoning process.

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When Johnston, who was “born tired”, proposed to leave Illinois for Missouri, Lincoln scolded him in language that could well have applied to his peripatetic father: “such a notion is utterly foolish. What can you do in Missouri, better than here? Is the land any richer? Can you there, any more than here, raise corn, & wheat & oats, without work? Will any body there, any more than here, do your work for you? If you intend to go to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along any where. Squirming & crawling from place to place can do no good. You have raised no crop this year, and what you really want is to sell the land, get the money and spend it - part with the land you have, and my life upon it, you will never after, own a spot big enough to bury you in. Half you will get for the land, you spend in moving to Missouri, and the other half you will eat and drink, and wear out, & no foot of land will be bought. Now I feel it is my duty to have no hand in such a piece of foolery.”

-- Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life”

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