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Quote from Abraham Lincoln,


"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their Constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it."


By:

Abraham Lincoln (more quotes by Abraham Lincoln or books by/about Abraham Lincoln)


(1809-1865) 16th US President

Date:

1st Inaugral Address March 4, 1861

Categories:

Constitution, Dissent, Government, Revolution, Rights

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