I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.