Abraham Lincoln:

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty.

— Abraham Lincoln Modern

Preserved the Union, ended slavery

Context

Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland

Date / Period

1864

Source

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln7/1:330.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext

Verification

Unverifiable

Explanation

Found in 1 providers: grok

Method

Cross Reference

Sources Checked

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