Political Quotes

On the recordAugust 21, 1858
I am fighting it upon these "original principles"--fighting it in the Jeffersonian, Washingtonian, Madisonian fashion....
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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In a debate, Lincoln asserts that his political struggle against slavery is rooted in the original principles of the nation's founders.

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