Abraham Lincoln: “I have the honor to state that the judgment and finding aforesaid have not been approved by me.”

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

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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.

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.