On the recordSeptember 15, 1858
They don't make the house a house divided against itself.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “They don't make the house a house divided against itself.”
Editor's note · Context
Continuing his argument, Lincoln states that the natural variations among states do not create the kind of fundamental division he warned about for the nation.
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