Abraham Lincoln: “And to do and perform all acts and things that may be necessary or proper to be done for the safe and speedy transport…”

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.

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…