Abraham Lincoln: “I propose that you constantly bear in mind that the support you owe to the brave officers and soldiers in the field is…”

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

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.

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.