On the recordOctober 16, 1854
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own, lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
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Lincoln articulates his fundamental belief in individual autonomy over one's own property as the basis of his sense of justice.
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