I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Com…

Abraham Lincoln
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). Lincoln on Democracy, p.50, Fordham Univ Press
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). Lincoln on Democracy, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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