Abraham Lincoln actually said...

Whereas it is fit and becoming in all people at all times to acknowledge and revere the supreme government of God.

Proclamation 85—Proclaiming a Day of National Humiliation, Prayer, and Fasting

08/11/1861

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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.

The question is not whether we will be free, but whether we will be free to choose.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.