Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.—Let those materials be molded into general intelligence, sound morality, and in particular, a reverence for the constitution and laws...*
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*Abraham Lincoln: The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois; January 27, 1838 https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
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