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By Abraham Lincoln
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.
- Source
- First Inaugural Address (final text), March 4, 1861 · Vol. 4, p. 271
- Read at
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861, addressed to the people of the seceding states. The Collected Works italicizes "your", "mine" and "you".