Abraham Lincoln: “I have ordered the other thirty-nine to be executed on Friday, the 19th instant.”

I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?

Grant that he desires the elective franchise, will he not attain it sooner by saving the already advanced steps towards it, than by running backward over them?