Things Lincoln never said

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(05-30-2016 05:19 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  Another one: "If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work."

Some of the misquotes seem to me to be a bowdlerization or (for lack of a better term) dumbing-down of actual quotes. That one reminds me of the following: "No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive." (September 30, 1859; "Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee"; Speeches and Writings, Volume II, page 98; Collected Works, Volume III, page 479; originally in Milwaukee Sentinel, October 1, 1859.)