Lincoln was a tool for the pro-aristocratic whigs. He was a whig himself. Neoliberals have heroized him. It's disgusting what Lincoln and the Frankfurt school of bankers did to the US. Permanent public debt and debt backed bonds for a fiat currency. The FED was just the icing on the cake.

Read up on Lincoln. The civil war was not fought over slavery but was fomented by Frankfurt and British banking rivalries.

And yet this Lincoln and his advisors who he appointed were quite contrary to this quote, suppsedly uttered from his mouth. They are politicians after all. The British lost their bid for a new chartered bank, Andrew Jackson was staunchly against the charter and won.

Lincoln was backed by the whigs and reconstructionists who basically said:

"Hey look, we are going to screw over the contitution, centralize government and enforce a banking scheme based on permenant public debt. But this is different, you cannot be against us because we aren't the British, where JP Morgan and Co.