“Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.”
About This Quote
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume II, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (October 16, 1854), p. 273.
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