Politics Quote From Abraham Lincoln

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"The provision in the Constitution giving Congress the war-making power was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and improverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one [person] should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us." -- Abraham Lincoln, 1848. :gentleman:

This quote is from an article in a small local weekly newspaper that circulates around my home town. The article itself was written by former Senator Andy Jacobs, Jr., from my home state of Indiana. Check out the entire article here.
 
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