the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of...
Questions of great intricacy and importance have arisen out of the blockade and other belligerent operations between the...
It is especially gratifying that our prize courts, by the impartiality of their adjudications, have commanded the respec...
I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship and render spe...
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that...
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedi...
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take in...
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can l...
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so...
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
You may fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people al...
The question is not whether we will be free, but whether we will be free to choose.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground.
