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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 333
AUTHOR: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
QUOTATION: Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
ATTRIBUTION: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 27, 1856.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 2, p. 366 (1953).
SUBJECTS: Constitution of the United States