Abraham Lincoln: “What is likely to be your condition as to health in this camp?”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

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.

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