Comment on Lincoln’s Birthday Reflections: His insights on liberty and tyranny still ring true today

Lincoln’s Birthday Reflections: His insights on liberty and tyranny still ring true today

Abraham Lincoln told an 1864 audience that "the world has never had a good definition of the word 'liberty.'" Different people can define liberty in different, even contradictory ways, so that both sides in a conflict can claim to the mantle of liberty. That was exactly the situation in the Civil War: Slaveholders defined liberty in such a way as to make themselves the guardians of liberty...

 

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