“I love the Constitution. It is enshrined in my heart. I love it better than any dozen Democrats in the land do tonight.”

— Owen Lovejoy

As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838&ndash;64 https://books.google.com/books?id=qMEv8DNXVbIC&pg=PA243 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 243 1860s, Speech (October 1860)

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