Abraham Lincoln: “And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in…”

As a general rule I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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

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