Abraham Lincoln: “The slightest knowledge of arithmetic will prove to any man that the rebel armies cannot be destroyed by Democratic…”

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

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?

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

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.