Abraham Lincoln: “It is believed that so far as American ports and American citizens are concerned that inhuman and odious traffic has…”

I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.

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

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…

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