Is this a real quote? What speech is it from. Does any one know? Did the King really write Lincoln?
shareDon't know about the quote but he did write a letter to President Buchanan but it didn't arive until Lincon was President.
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A martini is like a woman's breast: one is not enough and three is too many
I don't know the speech, but Lincoln really did believe that true progress involved using one's reason tempered by compassion, thinking before we act, instead of relying on raw emotional reactions. He thought we should look for progress not in technological changes like the railroad, but in the cultivation of qualities like mercy and empathy.
So he did believe similarly to what Anna said, but the exact quote is found nowhere in his writings or speeches.
The King had been exchanging presents with Buchanan and wrote his letter offering elephants "or to whomsoever the people have elected anew as chief ruler in place of President Buchanan". This was not about the Civil War, it was actually written before that started. It was just about offering America something useful. Anyway he got the answer you know of from Lincoln a year later. Anna was not involved in any of this correspondence.
A lot of the improvements in human rights credited to Anna and to Chulalongkorn were initiated by Mongkut. A few were actually put in place by Mongkut's father.
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According to TCM's Ben Mankiewicz, no record of such a quote has ever been found. However, a memo from Darryl Zanuck to the director John Cromwell was found in a UCLA collection. In it, Zanuck wrote that if an appropriate Lincoln quote could not be found it would have to be invented.
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