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To: Fred Mertz
And here is the entire quote (warning) spoken by Abraham Lincoln, who died as a result of bucking the conspirators.

"When we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places by different workmen, and when we see these timbers joined together and see that they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the lengths and porportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective pieces, and not a piece too many or too few, not omitting even scaffolding, or if a single piece be lacking, we can see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in; in such case, we find it impossible to not believe that they all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck."

32 posted on 05/19/2003 9:43:23 AM PDT by babylonian
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To: babylonian; 2sheep
Thanks for the fascinating Abe Lincoln quote; I've not seen it before.
43 posted on 05/19/2003 11:59:42 AM PDT by Fred Mertz
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