What do you think Lincoln meant by the phrase "...government of the people, by the people, for the people..."?

He liked especially the following expression, which he marked with a pencil, and which he in substance afterwards used in his Gettysburg Address: 'Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. '

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So I never really learned about this or really about him at all. But I have heard this before.

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Well the whole quote is "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." So maybe he is saying that the government and laws made for the people made by the people shall not leave or else all is doomed. This is my opinion and I the Lincoln. Maybe to prevent more soldiers from dying. Because If I remember wasn't this for all the soldiers that died?..

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i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

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