I bring a heart true to the work.

_EIGHTH_

The people will save their government, if the government itself will

do its part only indifferently well.

_NINTH_

Most certainly I intend no injustice to any one, and if I have done

any I deeply regret it.

_TENTH_

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

_ELEVENTH_

Action in the crisis of a nation must accord with its necessities, and

therefore can seldom be confined to precedent.

_TWELFTH_

You can't put a long sword in a short scabbard.

_THIRTEENTH_

"I have made it a rule of my life," said the old parson, "not to cross

Fox River until I get to it."

_FOURTEENTH_

It is sometimes well to be humble.

_FIFTEENTH_

Don't let joy carry you into excesses.

_SIXTEENTH_

Liberty is your birthright.

_SEVENTEENTH_

If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or government

will cease.

_EIGHTEENTH_

Learn the laws and obey them.

_NINETEENTH_

It is easy to conceive that all these shades of opinion, and even

more, may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men.

_TWENTIETH_

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.

_TWENTY-FIRST_

When you have an elephant on hand, and he wants to run away, better

let him run.

_TWENTY-SECOND_

Whatever God designs, He will do for me yet.

_TWENTY-THIRD_

Quarrel not at all.

_TWENTY-FOURTH_

Let no opportunity of making a mark escape.

_TWENTY-FIFTH_

I want in all cases to do right; and most particularly so in all cases

with women.

_TWENTY-SIXTH_

I should rejoice to be spared the labor of a contest, but being in I

shall go it thoroughly.

_TWENTY-SEVENTH_

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