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Quotation by Abraham Lincoln
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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953)Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 3, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953)The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (1905)Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953)Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953)
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. fragment on Stephen A. Douglas, Dec. 1856? Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2, p. 382, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).
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