On the recordMarch 4, 1861
You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors.”
Editor's note · Context
From his first inaugural address, Lincoln warned the seceding states that any conflict would be a result of their own aggression.
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