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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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944 |
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AUTHOR:
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
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QUOTATION:
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If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court,… the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there, in this view, any assault upon the court, or the judges. It is a duty, from which they may not shrink, to decide cases properly brought before them; and it is no fault of theirs, if others seek to turn their decisions to political purposes. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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President ABRAHAM LINCOLN, first inaugural address (final text), March 4, 1861.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 268 (1953). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Judiciary |
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