Abraham Lincoln actually said...

I earnestly recommend that the law be so modified as to allow bounties to be paid as they now are, at least until the ensuing 1st day of February.

Message to Congress Concerning Bounties for Veteran Volunteers

01/04/1864

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You may 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.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposi...

We are met on a great battle-field of that war.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.