"I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it."
— Government

January 1, 1970

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Abraham Lincoln, response to a serenade, October 19, 1864. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 8, p. 52 (1953)