President Lincoln's thoughts on Justice and the Duty of Government

[David Lockmiller]

All that study of Euclid did not go to waste on Abraham Lincoln!

"[I]f Judge Douglas will demonstrate somehow that this is popular sovereignty – the right of one man to make a slave of another, without any right in that other, or any one else, to object – demonstrate it as Euclid demonstrated propositions – there is no objection. But when he comes forward, seeking to carry a principle by bringing to it the authority of men who themselves utterly repudiate that principle, I ask that he shall not be permitted to do it." [Applause.]

Lincoln Speech at Columbus, Ohio, September 16, 1859