Abraham Lincoln: “All honor to Jefferson”

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, on Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence:

All honor to Jefferson, to the man who had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

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1 Response to Abraham Lincoln: “All honor to Jefferson”

  1. David says:

    In my opinion, these words qualify as a secular prayer.

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