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Abraham Lincoln2 quotes
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. — Abraham Lincoln · 1861I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual... Continue to execute all the express provisions of our National Constitution, and the Union will endure forever - it being impossible to destroy it except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself. — Abraham Lincoln · 1861Andrew Jackson2 quotes
The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the union. — Andrew Jackson · 1833Without union our independence and liberty would never have been achieved; without union they never can be maintained. — Andrew Jackson · 1833Barack Obama2 quotes
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. — Barack Obama · 2009The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great. — Barack Obama · 2013George Washington1 quote
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. — George Washington · 1796John Quincy Adams1 quote
Whatsoever is of domestic concernment, unconnected with the other members of the Union or with foreign lands, belongs exclusively to the administration of the State governments. Whatsoever directly involves the rights and interests of the federative fraternity or of foreign powers is of the resort of this General Government. The duties of both are obvious in the general principle, though sometimes perplexed with difficulties in the detail. — John Quincy Adams · 1825Martin Van Buren1 quote
The perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves...if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come. — Martin Van Buren · 1837