A Lincoln quote

[Eva Elisabeth]

Scott, is this what you are looking for? Noah Brooks, "Washington in Lincoln’s Time", p. 37:

"He...said, but with some seriousness: ‘I long ago made up my mind that if anybody wants to kill me, he will do it. If I wore a shirt of mail, and kept myself surrounded by a bodyguard, it would be all the same. There are a thousand ways of getting at a man if it is desired that he should be killed.'"
(This was in 1863.)