Quote#Death
God did not place good and evil before man, telling him to make his…
Quote byAbraham Lincoln · 1809–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854).
English (original)
God did not place good and evil before man, telling him to make his choice. On the contrary, he did tell him there was one tree, of the fruit of which, he should not eat, upon pain of certain death.
— Abraham Lincoln
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