Practice integrating quotes into an essay by completing the following. For more information, refer to this week’s reading Integrating Quotations into Sentences. Integrate the quote using a few words from the quote. Quote: Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. Speaker: Abraham Lincoln (August 27, 1856 Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan) Background: This speech was made when Lincoln was campaigning for Republican presidential candidate John C. Fremont. Scholars say that Lincoln was alluding to the issue of slavery and the growing national divide on the issue.