Abraham Lincoln: “Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people?”

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

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.

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.

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