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Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the

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. – Abraham Lincoln

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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. – Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954

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Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens. – Edgar A. Suter

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Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work. – Mitt Romney

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain

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