Abraham Lincoln: “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

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

I believe that it is not only possible, but in fact easier, to do this without deciding or even considering whether these States have ever been out of the Union, than with it.