“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.”

“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.”

“There can be glory in failure and despair in success.”

“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 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. 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 have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

“A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.”

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

“...THAT FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION TO THAT CAUSE FOR WHICH THEY GAVE THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION;...”

“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.”

“As our case is new, we must think and act anew.”