Abraham Lincoln: “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

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

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

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

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?