Abraham Lincoln: “Those only will be brought from the island who desire to return, and their effects will be brought with them.”

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…

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

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.