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.

If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.