[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was t…

H. L. Mencken
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[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
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