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

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.