Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

I do not boast that God is on my side, I humbly pray that I am on God's side.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

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.