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

We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?

The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

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

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.