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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 689
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
QUOTATION: When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, “I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.”
ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Unverified.
SUBJECTS: Friendship