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We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are…

Quote byAbraham Lincoln · 1809–1865

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The House Divided speech (1858).

English (original)

We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State.

— Abraham Lincoln

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