The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Preserved the Union, ended slavery
Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland
1864
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