As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself