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Abraham Lincoln: Freedom is the right to choose and to do what is right, not what is wrong.

On the recordMarch 5, 1864
Freedom is the right to choose and to do what is right, not what is wrong.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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Letter to William H. Herndon

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