Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...
There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.