You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Fourscore 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.
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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.
...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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