"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
President Abraham Lincoln
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Sorry--may have said this, and it is attributed to him, according to http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Attributed. But he also said this similar statement in his 1838 Lyceum address, found here (http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm): "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
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Sorry--may have said this, and it is attributed to him, according to http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Attributed. But he also said this similar statement in his 1838 Lyceum address, found here (http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm):
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
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