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By Abraham Lincoln
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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- Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838 · Vol. 1, p. 109
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
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From Lincoln's address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, January 27, 1838, as it was printed in the Sangamo Journal on February 3, 1838.