Sad Quotes

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right."

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

"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."

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty."

"The struggle of today, is not altogether for today – it is for a vast future also."

"And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts."

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well."

"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."

"Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy."

"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."