I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.