"To the best of my judgment, I..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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“Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it.”
“It's bad. It's damned bad.”
“Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.”
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“I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.”
“If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.”
“Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.”
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“I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.”
“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
“Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.”