All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

"But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract."

"Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon."