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“There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,--that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.”
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- Speech
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- 2026-07-04
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- 32638eb25892e56a6f48aeb545038fc30878e4c70ae2102e7f2c47d88cd91715
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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