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In early 1860 during what turned out to be a spectacular speaking tour of New England, Lincoln was approached by the Reverend Mr. Gulliver who told him how impressed he was with the talk he had just heard Lincoln deliver. Lincoln was somewhat taken aback by such fulsome praise, so he asked him what he found so remarkable about his speech. Gulliver replied, ‘The cleanness of your statements, the unanswerable style of your reasoning, and, especially, your illustrations, which were romance and pathos and fun and logic all welded together.’

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'Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.'

- Abraham Lincoln

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'Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.'

- Abraham Lincoln

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'We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.'

- Abraham Lincoln

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'We have as all will agree a free Government where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.'

- Abraham Lincoln

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'To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.'

- Abraham Lincoln

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'Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest.'

- Abraham Lincoln