Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
Reported as an inscription quoting Lincoln in an English college in The Baptist Teacher for Sunday-school Workers : Vol. 36 (August 1905), p. 483. The portion beginning with "stand with anybody..." is from the 16 October 1854 Peoria speech..
Posthumous attributions
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
"The Monitions of the Unseen", p. 31.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
“I am bound by my oath to abide by the law, and I cannot suffer anybody to derogate from it.”
Giles Rooke (1743–1808) British judge (1743-1808)
Redhead alias Yorke's Case (1795), 25 How. St. Tr. 1083.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
The last sentence is from the 16 October 1854 Peoria speech, slightly paraphrased. No known contemporary source for the rest. It first appears, attributed to Lincoln, in US religious/inspirational journals in 1907-8, such as p123, Friends Intelligencer: a religious and family journal, Volume 65, Issue 8 (1908)
Misattributed
“I am all right — I am a little sore. Anybody has a right to be sore with a bullet in him.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1910s, Address at Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1912)
Context: I am all right — I am a little sore. Anybody has a right to be sore with a bullet in him. You would find that if I was in battle now I would be leading my men just the same. Just the same way I am going to make this speech.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 73
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
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1900s
Context: Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions. But every voluntary association (including the party) is also free to expel members who use the name of the party to advocate anti-party views. Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too. I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view. The party is a voluntary association, which would inevitably break up, first ideologically and then physically, if it did not cleanse itself of people advocating anti-party views.