| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 511 |
| AUTHOR: | Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
| QUOTATION: | I am superstitious. I have scarcely known a party, preceding an election, to call in help from the neighboring states, but they lost the state. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to James W. Grimes, governor of Iowa, July 12, 1856.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, p. 348 (1953). |
| SUBJECTS: | Elections |
| WORKS: | Abraham Lincoln Collection |
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