Abraham Lincoln: “But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly…”

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.

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.

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