We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.