You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.