This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

But it's not a big con, because you can set up experiments in free space far from everything, where objects will, in fact, maintain their velocity forever.

但这并不是个反例,因为你可以在一个远离一切的空间里做实验,在那里,物体可以永远保持现有速度

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and so -- very slowly -- I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and free myself of the eye forever.

VOA: special.2009.05.16