Abraham Lincoln: “I think it just to say that all true men North should sympathize with them, and ought to be willing to do any possible…”

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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…

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.