Abraham Lincoln: “I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.”

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

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

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

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?