“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
@eshmun isn't very good at spotting a fraud...
Abraham Lincoln never said those words as anyone vaguely familiar with his speech could tell. Someone made them up and put them on the internet, and like so much other nonsense, they are accepted without question...
Lincoln's actual words were far more impressive:
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--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."
Springfield, Illinois, January 1838
https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/lyceum.htm
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