Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If elected, I shall consider the whole people of Sangamon my constituents, as well those that oppose as those that support me. While acting as their representative I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is.
Then running for reelection as a state legislator.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL), Campaign speech, Sangamon, IL, 1836
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Speaking then as a congressman:. those of the voters of a particular district
At the time few believed he would not slow down or kill all civil rights legislation as he had done throughout his career. But this is one example of a politician telling the truth on the campaign trail with few believing him. He certainly vindicated his early civil rights record once he became president.
In one of the most famous rebuffs of a politician to his constituents, the congressman sent the following message home to his constituents after receiving instructions from them which he did not care for. He went to Texas where he died defending the Alamo.
Originally it was published in Boston under the name “A Columbian Patriot.” The “principles to which she referred were the principles set out in our Constitution of 1787.
This is a formal codification of the position that was made by the great orator Edmund Burke: {194922}.
In reference to nullification of the Tariff Act of 1832:
Some Senators stated that in good conscience they could not vote to curtail freedom of speech or expression. See Edmund Burke {194922} for one of the great statements on the legislator’s obligation.
When President Barak Obama asked his advice about whther or not to take the risk and approve the mssion to get bin Ladin when there is a great deal of risk to the mission, adn the intelligence was not even very sure that the target home they had identified in Pakistan really had bin Laden, Panetta told him this and suggested that he think of it the same way. The president foillowed that procedure and decided to approve the mission even though fully half of his leading advisors counseled agains the mission as being too risky with insufficient information.
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
