Authors: Abraham Lincoln

1860–1877

Inaugural Address (1865)

Fellow Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a

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1825–1860

Fragment on Free Labor

Equality, in society, alike beats inequality, whether the latter be of the British aristocratic sort, or of the domestic slavery sort. We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better

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