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Book: Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Team of Rivals: The Political
{Lincoln reflecting on} George Washington's words: "It is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prospertiy. Washington advised vigilance against "the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
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