For these, and especially for the improved condition of our national affairs, our renewed and profoundest gratitude to God is due.
I most cordially recommend that Captain John Rodgers, United States Navy, receive a vote of thanks from Congress for the eminent skill and g...
I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of...
the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasi...
Questions of great intricacy and importance have arisen out of the blockade and other belligerent operations between the Government and seve...
It is especially gratifying that our prize courts, by the impartiality of their adjudications, have commanded the respect and confidence of ...
I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship and render special homage and grat...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposi...
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.
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.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
The question is not whether we will be free, but whether we will be free to choose.
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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 ...
