Abraham Lincoln: “Advancement--improvement in condition--is the order of things in a society of equals.”

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

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

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?

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.