Abraham Lincoln: “The revenue from all sources, including loans, for the financial year ending on the 30th of June, 1861, was…”

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

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

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.