Abraham Lincoln actually said...

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

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve."

"The immense mineral resources of some of those Territories ought to be developed as rapidly as possible."

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