“You can fool all the people part of the time . . .”
Lincoln Speech, July 27, 1858
“You can fool all the people part of the time and part of the people all the time, but you can not fool all the people all the time.”
Spoken in an address in Clinton July 27, 1858 by
Abraham Lincoln
“I must stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln
(Back of Base)
That it may not be forgotten that here for nineteen years as a lawyer and friend he was counselor and teacher of our forefathers.
This statue is erected by the citizens of Dewitt County to the memory of Abraham Lincoln.
Dedicated Nov 11 1931
Marker is on Lincoln Square Circle, on the left.
Courtesy hmdb.org
