Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free.

We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth.

Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.