01-09-2014, 03:01 PM
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln, inauguration speech, 1870.
Who's to say whether he said that or not? Well, as in Macaulay's case, the alleged speaker here was not in the stated location at the stated time and the words used are not ones that were in use at the time and they are not sentiments that the speaker mirrored in any of his other speeches. So it's pretty safe to say that this quote, like the one used earlier in this thread, is a load of crock.
There is only one reality.
Who's to say whether he said that or not? Well, as in Macaulay's case, the alleged speaker here was not in the stated location at the stated time and the words used are not ones that were in use at the time and they are not sentiments that the speaker mirrored in any of his other speeches. So it's pretty safe to say that this quote, like the one used earlier in this thread, is a load of crock.
There is only one reality.