purpose between the Almighty and them.

ELEVENTH

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

TWELFTH

There is but one duty now—to fight.

THIRTEENTH

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

FOURTEENTH

This, too, shall pass away: never fear.

FIFTEENTH

I am not afraid to die.

 

SIXTEENTH

I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.

SEVENTEENTH

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

EIGHTEENTH

Give us a little more light, and a little less noise.

NINETEENTH

The wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefiting his condition.

TWENTIETH

I shall try to correct errors, when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views, so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

 

TWENTY-FIRST

There is nothing like getting used to things.

TWENTY-SECOND

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism.

TWENTY-THIRD

If they kill me, the next will be just as bad for them.

TWENTY-FOURTH

With Shakespeare the thought suffices.

TWENTY-FIFTH

As to the crazy folks—why, I must take my chances.

 

TWENTY-SIXTH

I think it more rare, if not more wise, for a public man to abstain from much speaking.

TWENTY-SEVENTH

At any rate, I will keep my part of the bargain.

TWENTY-EIGHTH

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

TWENTY-NINTH

When the time comes, I shall take the ground I think is right.

THIRTIETH

Let the thing be pressed.

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MAY

Two principles have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity; the other is the divine right of kings.

 

FIRST

Revolutionize through the ballot box.

SECOND

Repeal all past history,—you still can not repeal human nature.

THIRD

Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as other rights.

FOURTH

Teach men that what they can not take by an election, neither can they take by war.

FIFTH

I authorize no bargains, and will be bound by none.

 

SIXTH

When a man is sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, and gives satisfactory evidence of the same, he can safely be pardoned.

SEVENTH

If destruction be our lot, it must spring up among ourselves.

EIGHTH

In a democracy, where the majority rule by the ballot through the forms of law, physical rebellions are radically wrong, unconstitutional, and are treason.

NINTH

Let us be friends, and treat each other like friends.

TENTH

If I was less thin-skinned I should get along much better.

 

ELEVENTH

We will talk over the merits of the case.

TWELFTH

Nothing shall be wanting on my part, if sustained by the American people and God.

THIRTEENTH

Are you not over-cautious?

FOURTEENTH

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

FIFTEENTH

The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible.

 

SIXTEENTH

One poor man, colored though he be, with God on his side, is stronger against us than the hosts of the Rebellion.

SEVENTEENTH

Never fear, victory will come.

EIGHTEENTH

The Lord has not deserted me thus far, and He is not going to now.

NINETEENTH

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

TWENTIETH

Are you strong enough?

 

TWENTY-FIRST

If I do not go away from here a wiser man, I shall go away a better man.

TWENTY-SECOND

I know that liberty is right.

TWENTY-THIRD

You must not give me the praise—it belongs to God.

TWENTY-FOURTH

It has always been a sentiment with me that all mankind should be free.

TWENTY-FIFTH

I don't pretend to be bright.

TWENTY-SIXTH

It is only by the active development of events that character and ability can be tested.

 

TWENTY-SEVENTH

I remember a good story when I hear it, but I never invented anything original: I am only a retail dealer.

TWENTY-EIGHTH

Few men are tried, or so many would not fit their places so badly.

TWENTY-NINTH

Preach God and liberty to the "bulls" and "bears."

THIRTIETH

The Union is older than any of the States.

THIRTY-FIRST

I only beg that you will not ask impossibilities of me.

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JUNE

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion,—that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain.

 

FIRST

Let the people know the truth, and the country is safe.

SECOND

Men moving in an official circle are apt to become merely official—not to say arbitrary.

THIRD

Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us if we will do nothing for them?