Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"All marshals, deputy marshals, and military officers of the United States are directed to arrest and detain any person or persons about to depart from the United States in violation of this order."

"I occupy a position that enables me to believe that these two gentlemen are not nearly so deep in the quarrel as some presuming to be their friends."

"The only thing I think of just now not likely to be better said by some one else is a matter in which we have heard some other persons blamed for what I did myself."

"I believe he is a brave and able man, and I stand here, as justice requires me to do, to take upon myself what has been charged on the Secretary of War as withholding from him."