Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Property Rights

• We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

• Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, Conflict, Humans

• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Safety, Rothschild

  Abraham Lincoln, Archer Hayes Shaw (1980). “The Lincoln encyclopedia: the spoken and written words of A. Lincoln arranged for ready reference”, Greenwood Pub Group

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, People, Constitution Of The United States

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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