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Abraham Lincoln Quotations on "Constitution"

By Presidential - Posted on 12 April 2009

Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it. - Speech at Chicago
I have borne a laborious, and, in some respects to myself, a painful part in the contest. Through all, I have neither assailed, nor wrestled with any part of the constitution. - Speech at Springfield
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles. - Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan
I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle. - Speech to the New Jersey Senate