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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon?
Best regards
Stef
Abraham Lincoln (if my memory serves me right)
That phrasing (“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”) is new to me.
In dedicating the national cemetery at Gettysburg, Lincoln said that “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us … that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” (Back when I was in school, American students memorized the whole speech.)
I remember learning that Lincoln had read the triple cadenced “the people” in a sermon given by an abolitionist preacher. Maybe the exact phrase “Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people” is from that source, but that’s rather obscure.
This is a hard one.
Abraham Lincoln