"Of our political revolution of '76, we..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.
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“Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.”
“Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember”
“The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.”
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“I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.”
“Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.”
“I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.”
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“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”
“Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.”
“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”