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And the fifth is what I will call the honor thesis.
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I will resume that argument when we resume next time.
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But let me leave you with this.
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Lincoln does get inaugurated, of course, in the midst of this.
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He inherits a nation divided.
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And at the end of his first inaugural speech
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comes those famous words--
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Lincoln was, of course, capable of leaving passages for us to quote
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in almost everything he delivered and almost everything that he wrote--
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but he went to a little Shakespeare
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at the end of his first inaugural.
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By the way, that first inaugural was an olive branch--