Abraham Lincoln: “In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of February last, requesting information…”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

He said, with a great deal of emphasis, and with an expression of countenance I shall never forget: "When a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evidence of the same, he can safely be pardoned, and there is no…

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.