In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is …

Abraham Lincoln
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2011). Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches, p.44, Penguin
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