Abraham Lincoln: “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

He said, with a great deal of emphasis, and with an expression of countenance I shall never forget: "When a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evidence of the same, he can safely be pardoned, and there is no…

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.