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, justify revolution

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

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The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working...

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working...

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to...

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to...

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our...

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our...

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do...

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do...

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man...

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man...

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please...

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please...

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who...

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who...

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,...

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,...

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on...

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on...

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it...

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it...

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not...

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not...

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end......

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end......

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly...

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly...

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that...

If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that...

Freedom is never given, it is won.

Freedom is never given, it is won.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live...

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live...

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the...

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the...