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.
Preserved the Union, ended slavery
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.
Preserved the Union, ended slavery
Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois
1861
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