Abraham Lincoln actually said...

I feel that I should not perform my duty by a simple announcement of my approval of the joint resolution, without expressing my earnest desire that measures such in substance as those I have just referred to may receive the early sanction of Congress.

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Message to Congress on Printing Money

01/16/1863

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