To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.
This quote acknowledges Lincoln's pivotal role in uniting the nation and creating a sense of citizenship.
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Is it too much to say of this man that among the world's benefactors a greater than he hath not appeared?
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