There's no evidence Lincoln said that. More importantly, I question the wisdom of increasing suffering as the best way to get a bad law repealed. Ulysses S. Gra

There's no evidence Lincoln said that. More importantly, I question the wisdom of increasing suffering as the best way to get a bad law repealed. Ulysses S. Grant[1]: I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. Note "effective", not "best". [1] http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/grant1.asp http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/grant1.asp