Whatever you are, be a good one.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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 detract.

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.