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.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Most people are as happy as they want to be.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.

The Almighty has His own purposes.