Abraham Lincoln quotes on people

.. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.. We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

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