"Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg is to the fowl, we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it."
— Patience

January 1, 1970

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Abraham Lincoln, Last public address, 11 April 1865. John G. Nicolay and John Hay, "Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings", vol. II, 1894, page 675.