Dr. Joseph Barnes
[at Lincoln's deathbed]
It's 7:22 in the morning, Saturday the 15th of April. It's all over. The President is no more.
Edwin Stanton
Now he belongs to the ages.
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The part assigned to me is to raise the flag, which, if there be no fault in the machinery, I will do, and when up, it'll be for the people to keep it up. That's my speech.
I heard tell once of a Jeff City lawyer who had a parrot that'd wake him each morning crying out, "Today is the day the world shall end, as scripture has foretold." And one day the lawyer shot him for the sake of peace and quiet, I presume. Thus fulfilling, for the bird at least, his prophecy.
As the preacher said; "I could write shorter sermons, but once I start I get too lazy to stop."
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