“The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”
About This Quote
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume I, Speech on the Sub-Treasury (in the Illinois House of Representatives, December 26, 1839), p. 178.
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