Abraham Lincoln: “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and…”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

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 wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.