On the recordOctober 15, 1858
But if you insist that one is wrong and the other right, there is no use to institute a comparison between right and wrong....
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “But if you insist that one is wrong and the other right, there is no use to institute a comparison between right and…”
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Lincoln argued that if one thing is deemed wrong and another right, there is no valid basis for comparison between them.
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