Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Favorite Quote
Earnhardt Likes President’s Quote
This is one of Dale Earnhardt Jr’s favorite quotes according to his page at Infield Parking. These are not Dale Jr’s words — they’re Abraham Lincoln’s. But Junior must have got a lot out of them to say this is his favorite quote.
It’s pretty patriotic and timeless — the words are as meaningful today as they were 170 years ago.
Here it is. What do you think?
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. — By Abraham Lincoln — from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume I, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois.”