Abraham Lincoln: “Among the friends of the Union there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African…”

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

I believe that it is not only possible, but in fact easier, to do this without deciding or even considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it.

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.