Abraham Lincoln: “May I ask those who have not differed with me, to join with me, in this same spirit towards those who have?”

I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.

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

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.

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?