Abraham Lincoln: “To the Senate of the United States: I transmit to the Senate, for consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty of…”

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?

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.

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.