Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constit…

Abraham Lincoln
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. ✨ First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861
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Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. ✨ First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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