President Abraham Lincoln

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    I must save this government if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do; but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    Oh, the shame of it! That I should live to see a son of mine try to take a dame away from his father!
    S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, Huxley College president after catching his son Frank (Zeppo Marx)

    I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)