The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

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.

Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.

If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature.

All I have learned, I learned from books.