Abraham Lincoln: “I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart the last Thursday in November next…”

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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…

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.