As our case is new, we must think and act anew.Abraham Lincoln
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
U.S. President · 1809 – 1865
16th president of the United States (1861-1865), who led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
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