class="date">FOURTH

The Lord is always on the side of the right.

FIFTH

If I go down, I intend to go down like the "Cumberland," with my colors flying.

 

SIXTH

Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

SEVENTH

I am nothing, but truth is everything.

EIGHTH

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

NINTH

Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do.

TENTH

Only those generals who gain success can be dictators.

 

ELEVENTH

Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws?

TWELFTH

The Patagonians open oysters and throw the shells out of the window—until the pile gets higher than the house; then they move.

THIRTEENTH

The question of time can not and must not be ignored.

FOURTEENTH

We must be more cheerful in the future.

FIFTEENTH

Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe.

 

SIXTEENTH

Keep in your own sphere, and there will be no difficulty.

SEVENTEENTH

If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it.

EIGHTEENTH

I am never easy, when I am handling a thought, until I have bounded it north, south, east, and west.

NINETEENTH

Others have been made fools of by the girls, but this can never be said of me; I made a fool of myself.

TWENTIETH

It is not best to swap horses while crossing a stream.

 

TWENTY-FIRST

I can only trust in God that I have made no mistake.

TWENTY-SECOND

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that "might makes right"; it is for us and for our times to reverse the maxim, and to show that right makes might.

TWENTY-THIRD

I shall stay right here and do my duty.

TWENTY-FOURTH

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure.

TWENTY-FIFTH

I am older in years than I am in the tricks and trades of politicians.

 

TWENTY-SIXTH

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better.

TWENTY-SEVENTH

Our enemies want a squabble; and that they can have if we explain; and they can not have it if we don't.

TWENTY-EIGHTH

If it must be that I go down, let me go down linked to truth.

TWENTY-NINTH

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

THIRTIETH

Let us forget errors.

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JULY

Our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

 

FIRST

This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

SECOND

What is the use of putting up the gap when the fence is down all around?

THIRD

We hold the power—and bear the responsibility.

FOURTH

My countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our charter of liberty, let me entreat you to come back.

 

FIFTH

The Fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day for firecrackers.

SIXTH

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

SEVENTH

I have more pegs than holes to put them in.

EIGHTH

The government must not undertake to run the churches.

NINTH

All seems well with us.

TENTH

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

 

ELEVENTH

It is no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation.

TWELFTH

If the Ship of State should suffer wreck now, it will never need another pilot.

THIRTEENTH

Let us see what we can do.

FOURTEENTH

I will try to go to God with my sorrows.

FIFTEENTH

The wriggle to live, without toil, work, or labor, which I am not free from myself.

 

SIXTEENTH

Persisting in a charge one does not know to be true is malicious slander.

SEVENTEENTH

Steer from point to point—no farther than you can see.

EIGHTEENTH

God bless the women of America!

NINETEENTH

The churches, as such, must take care of themselves.

TWENTIETH

There is no more dangerous or expensive analysis than that which consists of trying a man.

 

TWENTY-FIRST

Answer with facts, not with arguments.

TWENTY-SECOND

The nation is beginning a new life.

TWENTY-THIRD

Better give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him in contesting for the right.

TWENTY-FOURTH

Money being the object, the man having money would be the victim.

TWENTY-FIFTH

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

 

TWENTY-SIXTH

Early impressions last longer.

TWENTY-SEVENTH

Stand with anybody who stands right, ... and part with him when he goes wrong.