Abraham Lincoln Quote

He desires to preserve the Government, that it may be administered for all as it was administered by the men who made it. Loyal citizens everywhere have the right to claim this of their government, and the government has no right to withhold or neglect it. It is not perceived that in giving it there is any coercion, any conquest, or any subjugation in any just sense of those terms.


Fourth of July Address to Congress (1861)


He desires to preserve the Government, that it may be administered for all as it was administered by the men who made it. Loyal citizens everywhere...

He desires to preserve the Government, that it may be administered for all as it was administered by the men who made it. Loyal citizens everywhere...

He desires to preserve the Government, that it may be administered for all as it was administered by the men who made it. Loyal citizens everywhere...

He desires to preserve the Government, that it may be administered for all as it was administered by the men who made it. Loyal citizens everywhere...