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Lincoln’s Legacy

You have this great country with different colors, different religions, different peoples and Lincoln actually speaks to that country in a way that General Washington, for all his genius, does not. Lincoln did make the case that the American proposition was that all men are created equal. . . . It has become the watchword of American democracy.

—Lewis Lehrman

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Walt Whitman, 1863 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
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