Abraham Lincoln: “The pay of a passed midshipman on the retired list from $788 to $350 per annum, or less than half of previous rate.”

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?

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

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