Abraham Lincoln: “No human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

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

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.