"Must a government be too strong for..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
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“The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.”
“Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag.”
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.”
More on Government
“The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.”
“I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.”
“Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.”
More on Liberty
“Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.”
“Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.”
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.”