Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1534 |
| AUTHOR: | Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) |
| QUOTATION: | I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to He may have been paraphrasing this: “I hope to ‘stand firm’ enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.”—President Lincoln, letter to Zachariah Chandler, November 20, 1863.—Collected Works, vol. 7, p. 24. |
| SUBJECTS: | Progress |