“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.“ – Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln spoke these words in the 1838 Springfield Lyceum address that the Democrats would rather us not be aware of or its more popular paraphrase of this speech. This speech may be found here:

Speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield (1838) | Constitution Center

Lincoln’s words speak to the unity and vigilance necessary to protect and preserve our fundamental freedoms. We, the People, are the final repository of our own freedom, liberty, principles, and foundational rights. The Democrats are upset currently because the Republican party is seeking to protect these rights by ensuring fair protections are preserved concerning voting. Those aspirations that so offend what was once a fair and decent opposition are that those voting do so legally. This requires citizenship, adequate identification, the ability of each person to only be allowed their legally mandated one vote each, and the fact that those voting are alive. These reasonable standards have governed this republic since universal suffrage has been in place in our nation. Suddenly, some Democrats would call this out as somehow unfair. It is the only way to preserve fairness in our voting process.