I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that 'it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams'. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, Reply to Delegation from the National Union League (June 9, 1864), p. 384.
- Abraham Lincoln
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