Abraham Lincoln: “I have the honor to submit, for the consideration of Congress a letter and inclosure from the Secretary of War, with my…”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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.

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…

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