What is a quote from Abraham Lincoln?

Gettysburg

Probably the most famous quotes by Pres. Lincoln come from his Gettysburg address. At the moment I can only think of two:

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

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brough forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Faith, Church, & Religion

"That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular. … I do not think I could, myself, be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live … "

"There was, too, the strangest combination of church influence against me. Baker is a Campbellite; and therefore, as I suppose, with few exceptions, got all that church. My wife has some relatives in the Presbyterian churches, and some with the Episcopal churches; and therefore, wherever it would tell, I was set down as either the one or the other, while it was everywhere contended that no Christian ought to go for me, because I belonged to no church -- was suspected of being a Deist. ... Those influences levied a tax of a considerable per cent upon my strength throughout the religious controversy."

"The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession."

"What is to be will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree."

Commenting on the virgin birth of Christ, he said: "There must have been sexual intercourse between man and woman, and not between God and his daughter."

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