Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1719
AUTHOR:
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65)
QUOTATION:
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.
ATTRIBUTION:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Henry L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859.—The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler, vol. 3, p. 375 (1953).
