Abraham Lincoln

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end read more

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing read more

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.