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"They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and Lincoln became at once what he would remain for them, "the man who freed the slaves." He would go down to posterity, not primarily as the Preserver of the Republic-which he was-but as the Great Emancipator, which he was not."
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american-civil-war
politics
politics-of-the-united-states
slavery
slavery-in-america
slavery-in-the-united-states
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Shelby Foote |
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"A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there."
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abraham-lincoln-quotes
american-civil-war
compassion
fallibility
humility
leadership
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Shelby Foote |
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world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion ...
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american-civil-war
battle-of-gettysburg
gettysburg-campaign
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Jeff Shaara |