To attempt to correct injustice by disunion is to apply a remedy that is worse than the disease.
A President may dismiss the abuse of scoundrels, but to be denounced by honest men honestly outraged is a test of greatn...
The strength of this Republic lies in the fact that so many millions of men and women, who held no office and aspire to ...
In 1865 no man alive could have succeeded Abraham Lincoln without being subject to unfavorable comparisons.
In these new estimates, not one of the three has diminished in stature.
And this is the thing that these three men, different as they were in origin and in temperament, held in common.
They deserve not only an enduring monument, but they deserve understanding and remembrance.
What each of them meant to his time, you have been told by many learned men.
It is good at such a time to pause to take strength and guidance from our country's past.
It takes courage to face a duelist with a pistol and it takes courage to face a British general with an army.
We dedicate here today not merely a monument to great men of the past, but also to the greatness of free men now and for...