Abraham Lincoln: “Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.”

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?

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

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…

Important principles may and must be inflexible.