“I do not consider that I have ever accomplished anything without God; and if it is His will that I must die by the hand of an assassin, I must be resigned. I must do my duty as I see it, and leave the rest with God.”

— Abraham Lincoln

As quoted in Life on the Circuit with Lincoln (1892) by Henry Clay Witney
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16th President of the United States 1809–1865

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