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I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

Abraham Lincoln
Believe, Patriotic, Government
Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858
I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.