ABRAHAM LINCOLN, on Jefferson’s writing of the Declaration of Independence:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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