Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.
Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.