Abraham Lincoln: “Say to the gentlemen I will meet them personally at Fortress Monroe as soon as I can get there.”

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

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.