"Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people."
— Government

January 1, 1970

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Theodore Parker, sermon delivered at Music Hall, Boston (July 4, 1858). On the Effect of Slavery on the American People, p. 5. (Read and underlined by Lincoln)