"Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our [1787] Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us."
Abraham Lincoln
Source: in an 1848 letter to William Herndon
Thanks to Marty at On The Home Front for the quote.
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