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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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78 |
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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Has it [popular sovereignty] not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death? |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN, rejoinder in the sixth debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas, October 13, 1858.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 3, p. 279 (1953). |
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SUBJECTS:
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American people |
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