"Among free men there can be no..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
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“You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.”
“I never trusted a man who never smoked or drank.”
“The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us,the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong.”
More on Democracy
“I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.”
“The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.”
“In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.”
More on Peace
“He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.”
“The female that loves unrequited sleeps,And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.”
“The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.”