"Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have..." — Abraham Lincoln
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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. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.
Speech in the United States House of Representatives (12 January 1848)
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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank him for the…
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It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from…
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In reference to you, colored people, let me say God has made you free. Although you have…
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My poor friends, you are free, free as air. You can cast off the name of slave and trample…