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Dare to Do Our Duty

2011-03-24

Daily Dabble in the Classics, Abraham Lincoln

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.


Source: Abraham Lincoln, Address, Cooper Union, New York City, Feb. 27, 1860.

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