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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.

Source: First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar 1861
-- Abraham Lincoln, (Feb 12 1809-1865), US president, lawyer; He was the 16th U.S. president during the Civil War; wrote Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Address, 1863.

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