"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... Military glory,—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood."
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Wars and battles19th-century military history19th century in the United StatesHistory of Mexico1840s
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Abraham Lincoln, speech in the United States House of Representatives opposing the Mexican war (12 January 1848)
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