During her New Hampshire primary concession speech last evening, Hillary Clinton, a lifelong Methodist, said: “You know, my family and my faith taught me a simple thing, do all the good in all the ways you can for all the people you can.”
Social media credited her with quoting Methodism’s founder John Wesley. The quote has been widely attributed to Wesley for likely much more than a century, but there’s no evidence he ever said it. And she didn’t say that he had, at least not here. A new biography about Clinton aimed at teenagers is titled Hillary Rodham Clinton: Do All the Good You Can, and the publisher’s ad credits the quote to Wesley.
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