The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities.

Preserved the Union, ended slavery

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Fragment on Government

Date / Period

1854

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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:26.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext

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