Whatever уоu are, bе а good one.

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.