Abraham Lincoln Government Quotes

What did Abraham Lincoln say about Government?

Abraham Lincoln has written many quotes about Government. E.g.,

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
• 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.

What are the top most famous Government quotes by Abraham Lincoln?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Government by Abraham Lincoln.

• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
• 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.
• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
• The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.