"I recommend that all loyal people do, on receipt of this information, assemble at their places of worship and render special homage and gratitude to Almighty God for this great advancement of the nati..."
"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."
"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 devo..."
"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 all the time."
"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 battle-field 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 can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground."