Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

If ever there lived a President who during his term of service needed all of the consolation and of the strength that he could draw from the unseen powers above him, it was Abraham Lincoln.

Context

Remarks at the Centennial Exercises in the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church

11/15/1903

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