It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

Without Divine assistance I can not succeed; with it I can not fail.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.