Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.