“[I]n so far as the Government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels, so that every poor man may have a home.”

— Abraham Lincoln

1860s, Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (1861), Commercial version

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16th President of the United States 1809–1865

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