Abraham Lincoln: “I almost always feel inclined, when I say anything to soldiers, to impress upon them, in a few brief remarks, the…”

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.

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.