# Quote — Harry Turtledove, How Few Remain

> “How many Mormons are polygamists, truly?” Lincoln asked. “They write all sorts of things in the eastern papers.”
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> “They say all sorts of things here, too,” Hamilton answered. “The truth is devilish hard to find, and they don’t keep any public records of marriages past the first, which makes it harder yet. I’d say it’s about one in ten, if that, but the polygamists have influence beyond their numbers. If you’re going to support more than one wife and family, you need more than the common run of money, you see.”
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> “Oh, yes,” Lincoln said. “A case similar to that of slaveholders in the Confederate States.”

- Author: [Harry Turtledove](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove.md)
- Book: [How Few Remain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/harry-turtledove/how-few-remain.md)
- Page: 69
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> “You notice he does not do anything about it. The first amendment to the Constitution protects our right to speak freely.” He let out a chuckle the wind flung away. “The first amendment also protects his right to speak freely, however distasteful I find his opinion.”

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> A low murmur came from his audience, more frightening in its way than the fury they had shown before. Fury didn’t last. Now Lincoln was making them think. Thought was slower than anger to flower into action, but it was a hardy perennial. It did not bloom and die.

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> He’d turned fifty-seven earlier in the year, and the past had a way of looking better and the present worse the older he got.

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