Abraham Lincoln: “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.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

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