Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

Abraham Lincoln · Letter to Major General Joseph Hooker (January 26, 1863)

I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it.

Abraham Lincoln · Letter (the whole message) to Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania (April 8, 1861)

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