Abraham Lincoln actually said...

"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."

"I know General McClellan wishes to be successful, and I know he does not wish it any more than the Secretary of War for him, and both of them together no more than I wish it."