Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | |
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| NUMBER: | 511 |
AUTHOR: | Abraham Lincoln (180965) |
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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