Abraham Lincoln: “The highest merit, then, is due to the soldier.”

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.

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

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.