Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
733
AUTHOR:
Abraham Lincoln (180965)
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).