My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

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.