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In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection, I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle. - Abraham Lincoln
Attribution: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. annual message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1861. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5, p. 48, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).

Categories: Civil War, American, President, Revolution, Violence

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