"If I had another face, do you think I'd wear this one?"
If I had another face, do you think I'd be wearing this one?
Who told it first?
Unverified legend
No source found for the story.
Where: Said to have been in a debate with Stephen Douglas
A History News Network article says the story "might be apocryphal", and a Lincoln forum poster could not find it in his speeches. We found no contemporary source, so this entry has NO documented origin. It is here as an example of a legend, not as a fact about Lincoln.
Older versions, rival claims and what came next
- 1850s claim Abraham Lincoln (attributed) - The claimed time of the retort during the Lincoln-Douglas campaign. No dated source found. source
Sources
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