Here is proof of it.
Genius is no snob.
Here, no less, hides the mystery of democracy.
Nature pays no tribute to aristocracy, subscribes to no creed of caste, renders fealty to no monarch or master of any name or kind.
How eloquent this little house within this shrine is of the vigor of democracy!
The test of every American must always be, not where he is, but what he is.
No more significant memorial could have been presented to the nation than this.
I am profoundly conscious of the responsibility which is mine.
I shall seek, as I have always sought, to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every misleading party motive.
Boasting is always an empty business, which pleases nobody but the boaster.
There is no means of judging the future except by assessing the past.