Abraham Lincoln: “We must not be led by excitement and passion to do that which our sober judgments would not approve in our cooler…”

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.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it, than by running backward over them?