Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.
Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech at Springfield, Illinois." 26 June 1857. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, Rutgers University Press, 1953, p. 401.
Long was the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and his committee had to initiate any appropriation to any agency or function of government. In effect, Long had all “the gold.”
This is an excellent historical example of how damaging it can be for a country if its leaders do not understand the technicalities of economics and currency manipulation.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
