Saw this photo and caption in my Facebook feed and it reminded me of something I recently read about Lincoln.  His first great speech entitled “The Perpetuation of our Political Institutions” was also captured in a scene from Dinesh D’Souza’s movie America.  Speaking before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Lincoln said that the United States faced no external threat.  “All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, . . . with a Bonaparte 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.”  If danger were ever to threaten the United States, it would come from within.  “As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”  Continuing, “I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country . . . ”  Sound familiar?  As characteristic of the man, Lincoln’s solution was simple and eloquent:  “Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well-wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others . . . “, and I add, ESPECIALLY the President.