Abraham Lincoln: America Destroyed Quote
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Actual quote:
"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."
This was in "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois" January 27, 1838)