Number 5.
"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."
-Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863.
Number 4.
"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."
-"Notes for a Law Lecture" (July 1, 1850?), p. 81.
Number 3.
"...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."
-Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
Number 2.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."
-'House-Divided' Speech in Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858.
Number 1.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
-Lincoln's Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.
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