I am not at liberty to shift my ground, that is out of the question.

_SEVENTEENTH_

For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to

change.

_EIGHTEENTH_

The heart is the great highroad to man's reason.

_NINETEENTH_

Hope to all the world for all future time.

_TWENTIETH_

The young men must not wait to be brought forward by the older men.

_TWENTY-FIRST_

Hold firm as a chain of steel.

_TWENTY-SECOND_

One war at a time.

_TWENTY-THIRD_

I did not break my sword, for I had none to break, but I bent my

musket pretty badly.

_TWENTY-FOURTH_

Meet face to face and converse together--the best way to efface

unpleasant feeling.

_TWENTY-FIFTH_

And now for a day of Thanksgiving!

_TWENTY-SIXTH_

The influence of fashion is not confined to any particular thing or

class of things.

_TWENTY-SEVENTH_

Before I resolve to do the one thing or the other, I must gain my

confidence in my own ability to keep my resolves when they are made.

_TWENTY-EIGHTH_

Such of us as have never fallen victims to intemperance have been

spared more from the absence of appetite than from any mental or moral

superiority over those who have.

_TWENTY-NINTH_

Our political revolution of 1776 was the germ that has vegetated, and

still is to grow into the universal liberty of mankind.

_THIRTIETH_

By mutual concessions we should harmonize and act together.

_DECEMBER_

_Teach hope to all--despair to none._

_FIRST_

Rise up to the height of a generation of free men worthy of a free

government.

_SECOND_

Let us be quite sober.

_THIRD_

We prefer a candidate who will allow the people to have their own way,

regardless of his private opinion.

_FOURTH_

The people's will is the ultimate law for all.

_FIFTH_

I shall do my utmost that whoever is to hold the helm for the next

voyage shall start with the best possible chance of saving the ship.

_SIXTH_

My gratitude is free from all sense of personal triumph.

_SEVENTH_

How to do something, and not to do too much, is the desideratum.

_EIGHTH_

We mean to be as deliberate and calm as it is possible to be; but as

firm and resolved as it is possible for men to be.

_NINTH_

He that will fight to keep himself a slave, ought to be a slave.

_TENTH_

If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would

make no difference.

_ELEVENTH_

Under all this seeming want of life and motion, the world does move

nevertheless.

_TWELFTH_

I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have

nothing to talk about.

_THIRTEENTH_

It adds nothing to my satisfaction that another man shall be

disappointed.

_FOURTEENTH_

Take your full time.

_FIFTEENTH_

I surely will not blame them for not doing what I should not know how

to do myself.

_SIXTEENTH_

The man and the dollar, but, in case of conflict, the man before the

dollar.

_SEVENTEENTH_

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation,

should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues,

and kindreds.

_EIGHTEENTH_

We can see the past, though we may not claim to have directed it; and

seeing it, we feel more hopeful and confident for the future.

_NINETEENTH_

Squirming and crawling around can do no good.

_TWENTIETH_

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