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By Abraham Lincoln
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
- Source
- Letter to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864 · Vol. 7, p. 282
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
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From a letter to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864. Lincoln introduces these words with "I add a word which was not in the verbal conversation," so they come from the letter, not from the conversation it summarizes.