On the recordJuly 10, 1858
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all…”
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Concluding his speech, Lincoln expressed his hope that the spirit of liberty would endure until the principle of universal equality was fully realized.
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