Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ✨ Abraham…

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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings, p.169, Stanford University Press
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings, p.169, Stanford University Press

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