Abraham Lincoln: “Again, if one State may secede, so may another; and when all shall have seceded, none is left to pay the debts.”

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.

He said, with a great deal of emphasis, and with an expression of countenance I shall never forget: "When a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evidence of the same, he can safely be pardoned, and there is no…

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

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