Abraham Lincoln: “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

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…

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

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.