When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
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- Quoted in 3:439 Herndon's Lincoln (1890), p. 439: Inasmuch as he was so often a candidate for public office Mr. Lincoln said as little about his religious code as possible, especially if he failed to coincide with the orthodox world. In ill
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