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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Humility, Heart
"The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln".

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic
Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Freedom, 4th Of July
First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Want, Ought

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Fire, Democracies Have

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential
Speech, 19 May 1856

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln
Country, Freedom, Taken
Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Strong, Freedom
Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln
Change, Freedom, Father
Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Spring, Should Have

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Earth, Lasts
Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln
Life, Faith, Freedom
Address at Cooper Institute, New York, N.Y., 27 Feb. 1860

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Men, Wish
Letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Humanity, Independence
Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.123, Fordham Univ Press

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Abraham Lincoln
Wisdom, Freedom, Humor
"Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858

I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Abraham Lincoln
Strong, Freedom, Men
Speech to 140th Indiana regiment, 17 Mar. 1865

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Men, White
Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.551, Modern Library

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

Abraham Lincoln
Freedom, Government, Public Opinion
Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.385, Wildside Press LLC