Political Quotes

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.

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do issue this my proclamation, as required by said act, ordering and requiting all deserters to return to their proper posts;

Provost-marshals and marshals of the United States will arrest and commit to military custody all such offenders as shall disregard this order, whether they have passports or not, and they will be detained in such custody until the end of…

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