Abraham Lincoln : (3)

" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. " - 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 exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. " - Abraham Lincoln

" I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig. " - Abraham Lincoln