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Abraham Lincoln Quotations on "Democratic Government"

By Presidential - Posted on 12 April 2009

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. - Temperance Address
The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities. - Fragment on Government
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. - Speech at Chicago
Welcome, or unwelcome, agreeable, or disagreeable, whether this shall be an entire slave nation, is the issue before us. - Fragment of a Speech