True Courage
(From a Speech, 1855.)
I am afraid of nothing on earth, or above the earth, or under the earth, but to do wrong. The path of duty I shall endeavor to travel, fearing no evil, and dreading no consequences. I would rather be defeated in a good cause than to triumph in a bad one. I would not give a fig for a man who would shrink from the discharge of duty for fear of defeat.
Footnotes
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20 By permission of authors, and publishers, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.