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Henry Ward Beecher: Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!

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Let us give sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may not wither and die!
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Henry Ward Beecher

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Beecher urges the importance of nurturing liberty to prevent its decline.

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