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Abraham Lincoln: “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…”

On the recordNovember 18, 1863
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.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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