"The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults."

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If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

— Abraham Lincoln