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can safely be prescribed as to detail,
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but important principles must be inflexible."
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That's classic Lincoln.
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"No one plan must we necessarily commit to,
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but we must stick to some principles."
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It's Lincoln the pragmatist trying to figure it out.
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And then he's dead.
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But back to wartime, at least for a few minutes.
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The debate over Reconstruction,
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as it will play out through the next three years, four years,
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really five years, up to 1870/71,
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is the debate that ensued between Lincoln