Abraham Lincoln actually said...

I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have anything [nothing?] to talk about.

We could not exaggerate either the commercial or the political importance of that great improvement.

We all know where he went in at, but I can't tell where he will come out at.

I solicit your authority to furnish to the Republic a gunboat at moderate cost, to be reimbursed to the United States by installments.