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Abraham Lincoln
J.C. Buttre, 1865
Despite threats on his life, President Lincoln also dismissed the idea of assassination, saying to his friend and journalist, Noah Brooks, "I long ago made up my mind that if anybody wants to kill me, he will do it. If I wore a shirt of mail and kept myself surrounded by a bodyguard, it would be all the same. There are a thousand ways of getting at a man if it is desirable that he should be killed. Besides, in this case, it seems to me, the man who would come after me would be just as objectionable to my enemies -- if I have any." |