[Christopher Lincoln]

Abraham Lincoln said that right makes might. I think so too.

[tpaine]

I believe you will conclude, just as Churchill concluded in a later context, that great nations cannot, remain indifferent to massive human tragedy.

President Lincoln said, "Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us do our duty as we understand it."

In context, Lincoln was not advocating using the might of gov't power to overrule individual rights. -- He advocated we do our duty to correct such infringements.