You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

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 have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself.

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.