Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"The treaty with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade has been put into operation with a good prospect of complete success."

"I deem it my duty to recommend an appropriation in behalf of the owners of the Norwegian bark Admiral P. Tordenskiold."

"Fellow-citizens, we can not escape history."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act an..."