Abraham Lincoln: “Let us, then, turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it.”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

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.