Creative Quotations from . . .
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) born on Feb 12
US "president, lawyer". "He was the 16th U.S. president during the Civil War; wrote "Emancipation Proclamation," and "Gettysburg Address," 1863."
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F
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

R
My dream is of a place and time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
A
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
N
" somewhat like the boy in Kentucky who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy said he was too big to cry, and far too badly hurt to laugh."
K
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Entry for 23 Dec 1963; In " Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay," ed. Tyler Dennett, 1939."
R: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
A: "Autograph fragment, c. 1 Aug 1858 (published in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, ed. by Roy P. Basler, 1953)."
N: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K: "Attr. words in speech at Clinton, Illinois, 8 Sept. 1858. Also attr. to P. T. Barnum"
   



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