On the recordJanuary 2, 1851
If you can't now live with the land, how will you then live without it?
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “If you can't now live with the land, how will you then live without it?”
Editor's note · Context
In a letter to his stepbrother, Lincoln poses a rhetorical question to highlight the impracticality of a proposed financial arrangement involving land.
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