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MARCH
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
FIRST
Twenty thousand is as much as any man ought to want.
SECOND
By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never given merely to save a limb.
THIRD
Trust to the good sense of the American people.
FOURTH
Let us judge not, that we be not judged.
FIFTH
Put the foot down firmly.
SIXTH
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion.
SEVENTH
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
I intend discourtesy to no one.
TWENTY-EIGHTH
The doctrine of self-government is right – absolutely and eternally right.
TWENTY-NINTH
This government is expressly charged with the duty of providing for the general welfare.
THIRTIETH
We are not bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to reject all progress, all improvement.
THIRTY-FIRST
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
APRIL
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause which we deem to be just.
FIRST
You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
SECOND
He has abundant talents – quite enough to occupy all his time without devoting any to temper.
THIRD
I do not argue – I beseech you to make the argument for yourself.
FOURTH
Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
FIFTH
Lift artificial weights from all shoulders.
SIXTH
The purposes of the Lord are perfect and must prevail.
SEVENTH
Some people say they could not take very well to my proclamation, but now that I have the varioloid, I am happy to say I have something that everybody can take.
EIGHTH
Honest statesmanship is the employment of individual meannesses for the public good.
NINTH
Obey God's commandments.
TENTH
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of 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.
