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.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

I think the authors of that notable instrument [the Declaration of Independence] intended to include all men.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.

As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.