Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the equality of opportunity promised in the Declaration of Independence and warned that a healthy economy depended on widespread prosperity. Northerners and hardscrabble westerners flocked to that vision, and elected Lincoln to the White House in 1860.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the equality of opportunity promised in the Declaration of Independence and warned that a healthy economy depended on widespread prosperity. Northerners and hardscrabble westerners flocked to that vision, and elected Lincoln to the White House in 1860." in the context of "Heather Cox Richardson, as quoted in "Bring Back the Party of Lincoln" (3 September 2014), by H. Cox Richardson, The New York Times, New York" to mean that wisdom is timeless.