Famous Quotes | As to your kind wishes for...
As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis—first, because, in the main, it is wrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.
- Abraham Lincoln
Attribution: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. letter to Mark W. Delahay, Mar. 16, 1860. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 4, p. 32, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).
Categories: Money, Politics, President
