Abraham Lincoln: “I think the Constitution invests its commander-in-chief with the law of war in time of war.”

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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…

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

I am considering, and shall not fail to act when satisfied that action will be proper.