The Lincoln Year Book Part 3

THIRTEENTH We had better have a friend than an enemy.

FOURTEENTH In giving freedom to the slave, we a.s.sure 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 G.o.d 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 compa.s.sion 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.

NOVEMBER All are of the great family of men, and if there is one shackle upon any of them, it would be far better to lift the load.

FIRST Men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.

SECOND Never mind if you are a count; you shall be treated with just as much consideration, for all that.

THIRD If Almighty G.o.d gives a man a cowardly pair of legs, how can he help their running away with him?

FOURTH It is against my principles to contest a clear matter of right.

FIFTH The strife of elections is but human nature applied to the facts of the case.

SIXTH How n.o.bly distinguished that people who shall have planted and nurtured both the political and moral freedom of their species!

SEVENTH If we succeed, there will be glory enough.

EIGHTH Office seekers are a curse to the country.

NINTH Justice to all.

TENTH It must be somebody's business.

ELEVENTH Every man has a right to be equal to every other man.

TWELFTH Happy day, when, all appet.i.tes controlled, all pa.s.sions subdued, all matter subjugated, mind, conquering mind, shall live and move, the monarch of the world!

THIRTEENTH We will be remembered in spite of ourselves.

FOURTEENTH I don't know anything about money. I never had enough of my own to fret me.

FIFTEENTH Heal the wounds of the nation.

SIXTEENTH I am not at liberty to s.h.i.+ft my ground, that is out of the question.

SEVENTEENTH For thirty years I have been a temperance man, and I am too old to change.

EIGHTEENTH The heart is the great highroad to man's reason.

NINETEENTH Hope to all the world for all future time.

TWENTIETH The young men must not wait to be brought forward by the older men.

TWENTY-FIRST Hold firm as a chain of steel.

TWENTY-SECOND One war at a time.

TWENTY-THIRD I did not break my sword, for I had none to break, but I bent my musket pretty badly.

TWENTY-FOURTH Meet face to face and converse together--the best way to efface unpleasant feeling.

TWENTY-FIFTH And now for a day of Thanksgiving!

TWENTY-SIXTH The influence of fas.h.i.+on is not confined to any particular thing or cla.s.s of things.

TWENTY-SEVENTH Before I resolve to do the one thing or the other, I must gain my confidence in my own ability to keep my resolves when they are made.

TWENTY-EIGHTH Such of us as have never fallen victims to intemperance have been spared more from the absence of appet.i.te than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have.

TWENTY-NINTH Our political revolution of 1776 was the germ that has vegetated, and still is to grow into the universal liberty of mankind.

THIRTIETH By mutual concessions we should harmonize and act together.

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 s.h.i.+p.

SIXTH My grat.i.tude 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 embarra.s.sment 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 G.o.d, 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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