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By Abraham Lincoln
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 their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it.
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- First Inaugural Address (final text), March 4, 1861 · Vol. 4, p. 269
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln's first inaugural address, March 4, 1861. The Collected Works italicizes "constitutional" and "revolutionary".