Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Lincoln on Individual and States' Rights

"I believe that each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other man’s rights; that each community, as a state, has a right to do exactly as it please with all the concerns within that State that interfere with no other state…"

Abraham Lincoln, 1858

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