Abraham Lincoln: “An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not "distinctly and expressly…”

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

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…

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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