Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"If they or any of them shall be by Congress disposed of in reward or compliment of military service, I think General Butler is entitled to the first consideration."

"This is as full and complete a response to the resolution as it is in my power to make."

"I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a treaty between the United States and the Republic of Liberia, signed at London by the plenipotentiaries of the parties on..."

"Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I caused a careful examination of the records o..."