My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.

A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.

There' s nothing good in war. Except its ending.