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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
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"Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. The founder of the Democratic party declared that all men were created equal. His successor in the leadership has written the word "white" before men, making it read "all white men are created equal." Pray, will or may not the Know-Nothings, if they should get in power, add the word "Protestant," making it read "all Protestant white men...?"
――From Notes on Speech Delivered Before the First Republican State Convention of Illinois, Held at Bloomington, on May 29, 1856 by Abraham Lincoln.
