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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