SEPTEMBER
I feel that the time is coming when the sun shall shine, the rain fall, on no man who shall go forth to unrequited toil.
FIRST
Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.
SECOND
Come, let us reason together, like the honest fellows we are.
THIRD
There is no such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer.
FOURTH
There is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits.
FIFTH
Labor is prior to and independent of capital.
SIXTH
This is a land where freedom of speech is guaranteed.
SEVENTH
Workingmen are the basis of all governments.
EIGHTH
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
NINTH
The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I.
TENTH
How hard it is to leave one's country no better than if one had never lived in it!
ELEVENTH
Keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.
TWELFTH
Among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
THIRTEENTH
I have done all I could for the good of mankind.
FOURTEENTH
It is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
FIFTEENTH
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
SIXTEENTH
What will the country say?
SEVENTEENTH
Mediocrity is sure of detection.
EIGHTEENTH
Washington was a happy man, because he was engaged in benefiting his race.
NINETEENTH
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion—kind, unassuming persuasion—should ever be adopted.
TWENTIETH
If all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them full justice for their conduct during the war.
TWENTY-FIRST
There is something ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off.
TWENTY-SECOND
Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, "Can we do better?"
TWENTY-THIRD
I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
TWENTY-FOURTH
God is with us.
TWENTY-FIFTH
Intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among mankind.
TWENTY-SIXTH
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of both law and gospel, that church will I join with all my heart and soul.
TWENTY-SEVENTH
Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but the victory is sure to come.
TWENTY-EIGHTH
The first necessity is of proving that popular government is not an absurdity.
TWENTY-NINTH
People seldom run unless there is something to run from.
THIRTIETH
Allow the people to do as they please with their own business.