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Quotation from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln
“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war”
First Inaugural Address, Inaugural address (Project Gutenberg #4938)
Lincoln places the decision for war on those who would attack the government.
Citation: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war" — Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Inaugural address (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id lincoln-first-inaugural-address-q6)
