Abraham Lincoln: “But the election, along with its incidental, and undesirable strife, has done good too.”

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.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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.

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…