Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

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.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable a most sacred right a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.