Abraham Lincoln: “That while property may be destroyed for proper military objects, none shall be destroyed in wantonness of malice.”

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?

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.

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