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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 733 |
| AUTHOR: | Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
| QUOTATION: | Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, message to Congress in special session, July 4, 1861.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 426 (1953). |
| SUBJECTS: | Government |
| WORKS: | Abraham Lincoln Collection |
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