“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”

“That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter usfrom the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

“The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”