Abraham Lincoln said...

With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the...

In his own view, however, the two Houses of Congress, convened under the twelfth article of the Constitution, have compl...

The pending call is not for three hundred thousand men subject to fair credits, but is for three hundred thousand remain...

To care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan, is our duty.