Just checkup and brushup.
Select the word used by Lincoln. I have abridged the sentences for easy reading and comprehension.
1: Public ____ (safety/sentiment/policy) is everything ANSWER.
2: This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to ____ (guard/liberate/rebuild) the world ANSWER.
3: Character is like a ____ (tool/task/tree) and reputation like a shadow ANSWER.
4: A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not ___(like/help/hurt) me ANSWER.
5: Ballots are the rightful and ___ (powerful/peaceful/truthful) successors to bullets ANSWER.
6: To stand in silence when they should be ___ (defending/fighting/protesting) makes cowards out of men ANSWER.
7: Important principles may, and must, be ____ (flexible, inflexible, malleable) ANSWER.
8: I care not much for a man's ____ (culture/religion/status) whose dog and cat are not the better for it ANSWER.
9: Those who deny freedom to others ____ (claim/deserve/ensure) it not for themselves ANSWER.
10: He has a right to criticize who has a heart to (help/mourn/sympathize)ANSWER.