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
I wish to see all men free.
TWENTY-FIRST
Let them laugh, so long as the thing works well.
TWENTY-SECOND
Let there be peace.
TWENTY-THIRD
The age is not yet dead.
TWENTY-FOURTH
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
TWENTY-FIFTH
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country.
TWENTY-SIXTH
Be hopeful.
TWENTY-SEVENTH
Let not him who is homeless pull down the house of another.
TWENTY-EIGHTH
The struggle for to-day is not altogether for to-day—it is for a vast future.
TWENTY-NINTH
We can not escape history.
THIRTIETH
We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom; and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
THIRTY-FIRST
Let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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