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Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Approximate author period: c. 1837 AD · industrial
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- Abraham Lincoln
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- Approximate author period: c. 1837 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859.
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