Abraham Lincoln: “If he had been a large man, there is no knowing what he would have done with them.”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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.

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…

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