Abraham Lincoln: “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

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.