Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or ex..."

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."

"To destroy the spirit of the Union, is to destroy the Union itself."