Such will be a great lesson of peace teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take by a war teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war. (Abraham Lincoln)

Such will be a great lesson of peace teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take by a war teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.

Abraham Lincoln

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