Eight score and seven years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave his famous “house divided” speech to close out the 1858 Illinois Republican State Convention. He began with a candid appeal to understanding the current situation that they faced:
“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.”
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