“Get down, you fool!”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Assertion famously directed at then-President Abraham Lincoln when he came under enemy fire at Fort Stevens during the American Civil War, as quoted in Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005) by Doris Kearns Goodwin, p. 643.
1860s

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United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

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