We've got to keep them.

If there's going to be trouble I'd like to have the Almighty on my side, but I must have Kentucky." "And yet you will go forward about Sumter, which is regarded by everyone as a slavery issue." "The issue is as God has made it.

You can't go past the bed-rock facts.
I am the trustee for the whole property of the nation, of which Sumter is a piece, and if I give up one stick or stone to a rebellious demand I am an unfaithful steward.

Surely, Mr.Secretary, if you want to make the issue union or disunion you can't give up Sumter without fatally prejudicing your case." "It means war." Lincoln looked again at the document in his hand.

"It appears that you are thinking of war in any event.