It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.