03/17/1865
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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds."
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, cannot long retain it."