Abraham Lincoln: “The struggle of to-day is not altogether for to-day; it is for a vast future also.”

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.

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.

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