Political Quotes

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

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.

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.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.