Abraham Lincoln: “There was no time to convene them.”

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

As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

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.

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?