How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

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.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.