Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone 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.

Something in [the] Declaration giving liberty, not alone to the people of this country, but hope to the world for all future time.

I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights

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