Abraham Lincoln said precisely the wrong words in 1858, but standing by his famous speech landed him in precisely the right place two years later.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand,” he told the Republican State Convention the night he was nominated as the Illinois candidate for the U.S. Senate. He lost the 1858 elec
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