Abraham Lincoln: “The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you.”

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.

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…