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By Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
- Source
- Letter to Henry L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859 · Vol. 3, p. 376
- Read at
- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln wrote this in April 1859 in reply to an invitation from a Boston committee to a festival marking Thomas Jefferson's birthday, which he declined. The letter was widely printed by the Republican press.