"If ever this free people, if this..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.
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“Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.”
“To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.”
“We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.”
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“Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?”
“Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.”
“To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.”