Abraham Lincoln’s Inauguration March 4, 1861

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While Lincoln did not believe his address was particularly well received at the time, it is now generally considered one of the finest speeches in American history. Historian Mark Noll has deemed it “among the handful of semisacred texts by which Americans conceive their place in the world.”

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