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In which famous speech of his did Abraham Lincoln stress about the importance of a government ‘of the people, by the people, for the people’?

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Answer: In the Gettysburg Address.

Explanation: The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

It is one of the best-known speeches in American history. He stressed that-

"that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

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