Abraham Lincoln: “The advices which have been received from him have not hitherto been sufficiently conclusive to determine me to…”

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

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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.