] "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. 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's said ] against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me ] out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no ] difference." . . . ] "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for ] themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain ] it." . . . ] "Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the ] reason the Lord makes so many of them." . . . ] "I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming ] conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that ] of all about me seemed insufficient for that day." . . . ] "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy ] present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must ] rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think ] anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we ] shall save our country." Lincoln's Second Annual Message to ] Congress, December 1, 1862. . . . ] "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; to ] care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow ] and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just ] and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." ] Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865. |