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 is 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.


Conversation at the White House. From Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...