Great Abraham Lincoln Quotes

[RJNorton]

Matt, I am not sure if this is what you seek, but it's certainly among my favorite 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 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."

I must add that the Fehrenbachers give this quote a "D" and list the source as Abrahm J. Dittenhoefer. They indicate Dittenhoefer's claim to have had frequent meetings with Lincoln is not corroborated by other evidence. However, the same quote is on pp. 258-259 of The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter.