[2ndDivisionVet]

Here's the complete Lincoln quote:

"All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

- Abraham Lincoln, 1838

[jonatron]

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
Abe Lincoln

Thanks for posting the entire quote. Notice Lincoln's use of the word 'Freemen.' The majority of voters in 2008, don't fit the description and requirements that would've made them eligible to be freemen.