Abraham Lincoln: “To accomplish the object stated we require without delay 150,000 men, including those recently called for by the…”

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

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.

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

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?