On the recordApril 18, 1864
Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name,--liberty.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name,--liberty.”
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From an address at a Sanitary Fair, Lincoln highlights the conflicting interpretations of liberty during the Civil War.
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