evidence: Did Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the U.S., advise the public on how to predict the future by suggesting that they should create it, instead? No, that's not true: The quote is not authentic, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library confirmed to Lead Stories. [...] Lincoln really did say it best! [...] The claim that these are Lincoln's words has circulated on Facebook before -- for example, in the summer of 2019. But the claim's history goes back stil further.