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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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1496 |
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress? |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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Representative ABRAHAM LINCOLN, remarks in the House, July 27, 1848.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 1, p. 504 (1953). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Presidency |
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