My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.