Abraham Lincoln: “The close grapple and sharp steel of loyal and patriotic soldiers must always put rebels and traitors to flight.”

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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.

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