Abraham Lincoln, reported in John T. Morse, Jr., Abraham Lincoln (1893), vol. 1, p. 149, referring to Lincoln’s defeat by Senator Stephen Douglas in the 1858 senatorial campaign in Illinois. Also reported in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (November 22, 1862), p. 131, attributed to President Lincoln as a response to the Democratic candidate winning the governorship of New York election as "Somewhat like that boy in Kentucky, who stubbed his toe while running to see his sweetheart. The boy shttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winning