Abraham Lincoln: “To bow in humble submission to His chastisements, to confess and deplore their sins and transgressions in the full…”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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 wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.