“I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.”
About This Quote
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume IV, Remarks at Painesville, Ohio (February 16, 1861), p. 218.
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