Quote#Success & Failure
Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But, if…
Quote byAbraham Lincoln · 1809–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech of the Sub-Treasury (1839), Collected Works 1:178-9.
English (original)
Let none falter, who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But, if after all, we shall fail, be it so. We still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment, and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we NEVER faltered in defending.
— Abraham Lincoln
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