"So that here we have, really, the compound, the overall philosophy of Lincoln: in all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy, or their form of government, be conservative-and don't be afraid to use the word.

And so today, Republicans come forward with programs in which there are such words as "balanced budgets," and "cutting expenditures," and all the kind of thing that means this economy must be conservative, it must be solvent.

But they also come forward and say we are concerned with every American's health, with a decent house for him, we are concerned that he will have a chance for health, and his children for education. We are going to see that he has power available to him. We are going to see that everything takes place that will enrich his life and let him as an individual, hard-working American citizen, have full opportunity to do for his children and his family what any decent American should want to do."

"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"

Find a young man or young woman happy with life and you've likely found someone who grew up in an intact two-parent family. The relationship between young adults' happiness and the type of family that reared them receives attention in a study recently published in Psychological Reports by psychologist Kevin Marjoribanks.

Examining data collected from an Australian national probability sample in 2000 (3,580 men and 3,991 women with an average age of 20.2 years), Marjoribanks finds that on a 14-item survey, young men and women reared in two-parent families are significantly more likely to express greater happiness than peers reared in one-parent families. Because the differences in the reported levels of happiness are not very large, Marjoribanks highlights as "meaningful" only the largest two differences for women (happiness in contemplating their future and happiness with their standard of living) and the three largest differences for men (happiness with where they live, happiness with their standard of living, and happiness with the way the country is being run).

Still, Marjoribanks acknowledges that ten other differences in happiness scores for women and eight other differences in happiness scores for men-all "statistically significant," though relatively small-favor those reared in two-parent families over peers reared in single-parent homes. And even if it is not large, one of the psychological advantages enjoyed by young men and young women who have grown up in two-parent families encompasses a great deal. Compared to peers reared in single-parent families, young men and young women from two-parent homes are significantly more likely to say they are happy with "life as a whole."