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.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

I want in all cases to do right.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.