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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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406 |
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, address before the Young Men’s Lyceum, Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, p. 109 (1953). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Defense |
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