dajarrel Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 I had a boss at work who was put in the position as a 'developmental' role. He was very opinionated and had a hard time being wrong. He and I clashed and I found myself in another job. The new assignment is better than the last one so no loss there. I found this quote which expressed my feelings. ”No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take the consequences.... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.” Abraham Lincoln Makes sense to me, dj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Glad it worked out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 ”No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take the consequences.... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.” Abraham Lincoln <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hmmmm........... Did he say that before or after he started the war of Northern Agression? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aXXman Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 No man who is resolved to make the most of himself canspare time for personal contention I don't reckon it applies to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dunn Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Last I checked it was the traitorous South that started the war! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 DJ, That's what makes the Enoverse so great. No contentious people. I found this on another forum filled with this type of people. Nolan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted March 30, 2005 Share Posted March 30, 2005 Crap, yes, we have, like, SOOOO many of those types on the Internet. Whatta waste of damn' precious energy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Last I checked it was the traitorous South that started the war! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Check again. The Southern States formed a Confederacy and left the Union. Lincoln started a war to bring them back. Just like when the colonies formed a nation and left Britain. It always seems to be the one who is left behind who starts the war. Control freak thing coupled with a shrinking tax base really bothers polititians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gun Geek Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Last I checked it was the traitorous South that started the war! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Check again. The Southern States formed a Confederacy and left the Union. Lincoln started a war to bring them back. Just like when the colonies formed a nation and left Britian. It always seems to be the one who is left behind who starts the war. Control freak thing coupled with a shrinking tax base really bothers polititians. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I had read something similar to the little tidbit below in school 20 years ago. This thread made me dig it up (5 minutes on Google!). The passage refers to what is considered the first battle of The War of the Northern Agression, Ft Sumter, SC. Even then, several of Lincoln's closest advisors favored inaction. Complicating matters was Lincoln's decision to notify South Carolina governor Francis W. Pickens (1805-1869) of an impending expedition to provision the fort, an action that Lincoln said would not involve bringing any additional men or arms into the garrison. The state's secession government feared a ruse, and Lincoln's message to Pickens undermined any advantage of surprise the federal forces may have had. On 11 April, South Carolina requested Maj. Anderson's surrender, which he refused to do, and on 12 April, as the relief fleet neared, Confederate general G. T. Beauregard (1818-1893) opened fire on the fort. The next day, the fort surrendered and the nation was at war. Lincoln later took the position that he had maneuvered the Confederates into attacking Sumter, which allowed him to label them as traitors and aggressors. As he explained to Orville Hickman Browning (1806-1881), a longtime friend and political advisor: "They attacked Sumter--it fell, and thus, did more service than it otherwise could."1 But Lincoln spoke defensively and from hindsight. 1. Abraham Lincoln as quoted by Orville Hickman Browning in The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, ed. Theodore Calvin Pease and James G. Randall (Springfield, Illinois: Illinois Historical Society), 1:477. For you history and accuracy nuts, here's where I got this: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?amme...+@lit(mcc/031)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Run n Gun Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 DJ, That's what makes the Enoverse so great. No contentious people. I found this on another forum filled with this type of people. Nolan <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Kinda reminds me of a non-PC quote that George (I think) made once: “Arguing with someone on the Internet is like coming in first at the Special Olympics, you may win but your still retarded”! Ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dunn Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Darn Rebs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkelly Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 If the Northern armies didn't go South then there would have been no Civil War. So in that sense it was a war of Northern aggression. Does the end justify the means? The end being the strong Union we have today and, as a consequence of the war, the end of slavery sooner (perhaps decades) then would have happened in the CSA. Respectfully, jdkelly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted April 11, 2005 Share Posted April 11, 2005 I had a boss at work who was put in the position as a 'developmental' role. He was very opinionated and had a hard time being wrong. dj <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sounds like he had an easy time being wrong, but a hard time admitting it. That is normal for the kind of people who get to be bosses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 After it was all over, the South still had Texas and the north still had New York. Now the history books can say whatever they like, but y'all know who really won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Dunn Posted April 12, 2005 Share Posted April 12, 2005 Next time Sam kicks my butt at a match I'm going to claim that I really won, even though I didn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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