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.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.