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Who said "Democracy is the Government of the people by the people and for the people ?

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Abraham Lincoln
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George Washington
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Rajendra prasad
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Solution

The correct option is A Abraham Lincoln
In 1384, John Wycliffe wrote in the prologue to his translation of the Bible, “The Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People” (Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1951 edition). Bartlett cites Theodore Parker using this phraseology in a sermon in Boston’s Music Hall on July 4, 1858, noting that Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon visited Boston and returned to Springfield, Ill., with some of Parker’s sermons and addresses. Herndon wrote that Lincoln marked with pencil the portion of the Music Hall address “Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, by all the people, for all the people.” Hence, Option A is correct. The rest of the personalities were not originally quoted to speak these words, hence, incorrect.

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