My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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.

An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream.

It's a party of hope for America. Lincoln gave Americans hope through equal opportunities for all.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.