No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Right reason is stronger than force.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.