Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

A long visit to a friend is often a great bore. Never make people twice glad.

Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a "sacred right of self-government." These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.