“I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights.” - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln: A Life
by Michael Burlingame
https://www.knox.edu/academics/research-and-creative-work/lincoln-studies-center/burlingame-abraham-lincoln-a-life
Abraham Lincoln -
“I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.”
Paul M. Angle
"At forty-five he had been inactive in politics for several years.
But in the year in which he attained that age—1854—the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. The effect of the bill was to open federal territories, not yet organized as states, to slavery.
Lincoln, aroused as never before, re-entered politics and did all that was within his power to repeal the new legislation.
Out of the opposition of thousands like him the Republican Party came into existence. Within two years he was its acknowledged leader in Illinois."
https://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/OCA/Books2012-06/abrahamlincolnsspee00linc/abrahamlincolnsspee00linc.pdf
"Lincoln And The Economics of The American Dream"
- G.S. Boritt
"American System"
"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
Abraham Lincoln, the day after Christmas,1839.
Subject: Private Central Banking
“Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it, I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.” - Abraham Lincoln 1839
The "American System" is a system of honest monetary economics, ruled by supreme law; a government of "the people" by "the people" for "the people" with an American National Bank for "the people" to live as self-governed Individuals.
Learn the law: usconstitution.legal
Abraham Lincoln excerpt from Lyceum Address 1838
“Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;--let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap--let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;--let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions, sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.”
Lyceum Address https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm