Abraham Lincoln Quotes about Constitution

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We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Abraham Lincoln

Constitution

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Abraham Lincoln

United States, May, Constitution

The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

Abraham Lincoln

Apples, Unions, Constitution

Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.169, Wildside Press LLC

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

Abraham Lincoln

Slavery, Constitution, Inspection

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

Abraham Lincoln

Law, Slavery, Constitution

Cooper Union Address, delivered 27 February 1860, New York, NY

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

Abraham Lincoln

Suicide, Constitution, Pact

Abraham Lincoln, Steven B. Smith (2012). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.465, Yale University Press