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“Revolutions never go backward.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, Feb. 12, 1861.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b856d7b548c5bb97619dedba13243876398730e4760dc58c2f09e7002c9115a0
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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