Abraham Lincoln: “This is understood to be the only information on the subject of the resolution recently received which has not been made…”

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?

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…

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.