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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now dist...more

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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that su...more

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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all or cannot so well do fo...more

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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

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While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the governmen...more

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Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is ...more

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As o...more

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

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Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he ma...more

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilence no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government...more

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Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United Stat...more