I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing in this place, where were collected together the wisdom, the patriotism, the devotion to principle, from which sprang the institutions under which we live.
Addressing the citizens in Independence Hall, Lincoln expresses profound emotion at being in the historic location where the nation's foundational principles were established.
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