Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, in a letter to Albert G. Hodges, editor of the Frankfort (Kentucky) Commonwealth writes, “I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. … God alone can claim it.”
[added 4/9/2022] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.
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References:
“Letter to Albert G. Hodges, “Abraham Lincoln, Collected Works, edited by Roy P. Basler, seven volumes, (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 7:281, 282.
The Real Lincoln—LewRockwell.com.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/thomas-dilorenzo/the-real-lincoln-2/
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