Abraham Lincoln: “There is both a power and a magic in popular opinion.”

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.

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?

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.