My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham LincolnIt is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
Abraham LincolnYou may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
Abraham Lincoln