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I leave this rule for others when I'm dead
Be always sure you're right — THEN GO AHEAD!
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Personal motto, on the title page.
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Variants: Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.
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As quoted in David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (1874) by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, who indicates that he also often used simply "Go ahead!" as a battle cry, and general assertion of determination.
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Unsourced variants: Be always sure you are right — then go ahead. Be sure you are right — then go ahead. Always be sure you are right — then go ahead.

 

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