Springfield/people

Famous quotes containing the words springfield and/or people:

“Perhaps you have forgotten me. Dont [sic] you remember a long black fellow who rode on horseback with you from Tremont to Springfield nearly ten years ago, swimming your horses over the Mackinaw on the trip? Well, I am that same one fellow yet.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)