Abraham Lincoln: “It is hereby ordered, That all orders and records relating to the Missouri troops shall be open to the inspection of the…”

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…

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.

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