I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet! (Abraham Lincoln)

I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet!

Abraham Lincoln

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