Abraham Lincoln: “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Unlike a case of war between independent nations, there is no organized organ for us to treat with,--no one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.

The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it?