Who Said It?
“I am here by the blunders of the Democrats. If instead of resolving that the war was a failure, they had resolved that I was a failure and denounced me for not more vigorously prosecuting it, I should not have been reelected, and I reckon you would not have been Secretary of the Treasury.”
Answer below the fold. No googling!
Abraham Lincoln, speaking to Hugh McCulloch, in March of 1865.
I saw it just now in Abraham Lincoln, The War Years, Volume IV, by Carl Sandburg.
Apparently, some lessons are harder to learn than others.
Ha! Got it right on the first try.