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On the recordFebruary 7, 2011
Abraham Lincoln called upon all of us to remember America's Founding Fathers and, 'Their enlightened belief that nothing stamped with the divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on or degraded and imbruted by its fellows.'
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

King references Lincoln to highlight the value of life and rights.

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