I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.

Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.