"Abraham Lincoln said that."

Everyone misquotes famous lines and speeches- to the point that we remember the paraphrase or error more than the original statement. Neither Ingrid Bergman nor Humphrey Bogart ever say "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca. Marie Antoinette never uttered "let them eat cake"- a similar "let them eat brioche" was attributed to her falsely by Jean-Jacques Rousseau as anti-royal propaganda. But we repeat these lines all the time.

Even the great Bob Dylan has made these snafus- check out his Lincoln-Sandburg mix up with the Lincoln maxim:

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, 
and all of the people some of the time, 
but you can't fool ALL of time."

No matter how you say though, the sentiment is fantastic, and used not only by Dylan, but Bob Marley & the Wailers in "Get Up Stand Up."