"As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every Americ...
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
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Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
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"I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -- honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly...
"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 ...
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that governm...
"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you ...
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
"I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the very sternest necessity can ever justify it. A...
"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty;...
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing ...
"It is not in our forming battlements or bristling seacoasts, or our Army and Navy that makes America great - but rather our reliance in the law of lib...
"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 Con...
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
"If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view ju...