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Lincoln

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Lincoln is a historical provincial electoral division in Ontario, Canada, which was represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario between 1867 and 1999. It was located on the Niagara Peninsula. At various times, there was also a federal electoral district of the same name represented in the House of Commons. There was also a Lincoln district used to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada starting in 1792. Members of Provincial Parliament

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“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.”
— Address Delivered in Candidacy for the State Legislature (9 March 1832)
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.”
— Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan (27 August 1856), Collected Works 1:391
“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland.”
— Letter to Orville Hickman Browning (22 September 1861)
“Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy. I am but God's humble instrument; but you may rest assured that as long as I live no one shall put a shackle on your limbs; and you shall have all the rights which God has given to every other free citizen of this republic.”
— After witnessing a man bow down to him. In Richmond, Virginia (April 4, 1865), as quoted in Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), by David Dixon Porter, p. 295
“I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”
— Recalled in a letter from Joshua Speed in Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 527
“It's one of those figures that everybody knows who he is, so they think they know who he is, and they don't. They just know a name. They just know an idea. What he was, finally, in my view, was that he created the United States as we know it, he created the nation state as we know it.”
— Gore Vidal, as quoted in Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013), documentary film

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