Abraham Lincoln: “Their will, constitutionally expressed, is the ultimate law for all.”

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.

If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything.

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.