_FOURTEENTH_
It is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be
on the Lord's side.
_FIFTEENTH_
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's
consent.
_SIXTEENTH_
What will the country say?
_SEVENTEENTH_
Mediocrity is sure of detection.
_EIGHTEENTH_
Washington was a happy man, because he was engaged in benefiting his
race.
_NINETEENTH_
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced,
persuasion--kind, unassuming persuasion--should ever be adopted.
_TWENTIETH_
If all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation in
praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do
them full justice for their conduct during the war.
_TWENTY-FIRST_
There is something ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a
great way off.
_TWENTY-SECOND_
Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, "Can we do
better?"
_TWENTY-THIRD_
I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of
Almighty God.
_TWENTY-FOURTH_
God is with us.
_TWENTY-FIFTH_
Intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils
among mankind.
_TWENTY-SIXTH_
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole
qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of
both law and gospel, that church will I join with all my heart and
soul.
_TWENTY-SEVENTH_
Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but the victory is
sure to come.
_TWENTY-EIGHTH_
The first necessity is of proving that popular government is not an
absurdity.
_TWENTY-NINTH_
People seldom run unless there is something to run from.
_THIRTIETH_
Allow the people to do as they please with their own business.
_OCTOBER_
_Great statesmen as they (the Fathers of the Republic) were, they knew
the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established
these great self-evident truths, that when in the future some man,
some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but
rich men, none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon white men were
entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their
posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and
take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that
truth and justice and mercy and all the humane and Christian virtues
might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would
hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which
the temple of liberty was being built._
_FIRST_
Nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the
world to be trodden on and degraded and imbruted by its fellows.
_SECOND_
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally
right.
_THIRD_
Mercy bears richer rewards than strict justice.
_FOURTH_
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out
these great things.
_FIFTH_
It is not much in the nature of man to be driven to do anything.
_SIXTH_
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.
_SEVENTH_
The times are too grave and perilous for ambitious schemes and
personal rivalries.
_EIGHTH_
Act as becomes a patriot.
_NINTH_
Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
_TENTH_
If danger ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot
come from abroad.
_ELEVENTH_