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Fourth of July 2016: What the Founders ask of us

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It is remarkable that Abraham Lincoln never delivered a Fourth of July speech.

The closest he came was on July 10, 1858, in Chicago during one of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, when Lincoln spoke of the Founders as “iron men.” He remarked how, every July 4, Americans celebrate those “iron men” and their extraordinary achievement, because we are “historically connected” with it.

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