Abraham Lincoln: “It is easy to see that under the sharp discipline of civil war the nation is beginning a new life.”

Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it, than by running backward over them?

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.