BuzzFeed - "I like the Lincoln quote where he saysâ¦" Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images For second time in the same number of weeks, Republican Kentucky senator and presidential candidate Rand Paul used a fake quote from an American historical figure. Last week BuzzFeed News noted Paul used a fake Patrick Henry in a speech in South Carolina, and this week Paul looks to have misattributed a quote to Abraham Lincoln. "Yeah, and I think that could be extraordinary in some ways," Paul said when a host on WVJS noted he was a candidate "who wanted to give up power." Paul was discussing giving the president authority to make trade deals. Paul zeroed in on a Lincoln quote he liked to emphasis the point. "I like the Lincoln quote where he says, 'any man can stand adversity but if you want to test a man give him power.' And the test is whether the power goes to their head or they try to accumulate more," Paul said. "I think what we really need to get is leaders who want to preserve the p
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