Abraham Lincoln: “At this time of public distress, men may find enough to do in the service of God and their country without abandoning…”

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.

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…

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?

As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.