Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Mistakes

• So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Selfish, Mistake, Men

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

• We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Mistake, Victory

  A House Divided, delivered 16 June 1858, Springfield, Illinois

• The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Persons

• I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Mistake, Fighting, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (2002). “Conversations With Lincoln”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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