"I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts..." /1
/2 "and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny"
/3
"...But you are, perhaps, ready to ask, 'What has this to do with the perpetuation of our political institutions?' I answer, it has much to do with it..."
"...But you are, perhaps, ready to ask, 'What has this to do with the perpetuation of our political institutions?' I answer, it has much to do with it..."
/4
"...Its direct consequences are, comparatively speaking, but a small evil; and much of its danger consists, in the proneness of our minds, to regard its direct, as its only consequences." -Lincoln's Lyceum Address
"...Its direct consequences are, comparatively speaking, but a small evil; and much of its danger consists, in the proneness of our minds, to regard its direct, as its only consequences." -Lincoln's Lyceum Address
