When I go hear a man speak, I like to hear him speak like he's fighting a swarm of bees.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.

You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution

Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.