On the recordMarch 4, 1861
If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
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gutenberg.orgAbraham Lincoln: “If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object…”
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In his first inaugural address, Lincoln advised the seceding states to take time, arguing that deliberation would only frustrate bad intentions, not good ones.
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