Friday, March 22, 2019
Politicians
Abraham Lincoln, Speech in the Illinois Legislature Concerning the State Bank (January 11, 1837):
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Mr. Chairman, this movement is exclusively the work of politicians; a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal.
