“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 52
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