Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Election Day

• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Fire, Democracies Have
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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

• I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams."

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Horse, Men

  Reply to Delegation from National Union League, 9 June 1864.

• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Democracies Have, People, Voting

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