OCTOBER
Great statesmen as they (the Fathers of the Republic) were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon white men were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that truth and justice and mercy and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built.
FIRST
Nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded and imbruted by its fellows.
SECOND
You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.
THIRD
Mercy bears richer rewards than strict justice.
FOURTH
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.
FIFTH
It is not much in the nature of man to be driven to do anything.
SIXTH
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.
SEVENTH
The times are too grave and perilous for ambitious schemes and personal rivalries.
EIGHTH
Act as becomes a patriot.
NINTH
Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
TENTH
If danger ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.
ELEVENTH
I can't take pay for doing my duty.
TWELFTH
I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.
THIRTEENTH
We had better have a friend than an enemy.
FOURTEENTH
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.
FIFTEENTH
No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
SIXTEENTH
There is no grievance that is a fit subject of redress by mob law.
SEVENTEENTH
Punishment has to follow sin.
EIGHTEENTH
Let us to the end dare to do our duty.
NINETEENTH
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity, and none will do it enthusiastically.
TWENTIETH
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
TWENTY-FIRST
Military glory—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
TWENTY-SECOND
Pleasures to be enjoyed, or pains to be endured, after we shall be dead and gone, are but little regarded.
TWENTY-THIRD
Allow all the governed an equal voice in the government; that, and that alone, is self-government.
TWENTY-FOURTH
The universal sense of mankind on any subject is an argument, or at least an influence, not easily overcome.
TWENTY-FIFTH
Without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
TWENTY-SIXTH
Unless among those deficient of intellect, every one you trade with makes something.
TWENTY-SEVENTH
Implore the compassion and forgiveness of the Almighty, that he may enlighten the nation to know and to do His will.
TWENTY-EIGHTH
We should look beyond our noses.
TWENTY-NINTH
Labor for all now living, as well as all hereafter to live.
THIRTIETH
I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice.
THIRTY-FIRST
Success does not so much depend upon external help as on self-reliance.