Abraham Lincoln: “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

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

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.

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?

Important principles may and must be inflexible.