DECEMBER

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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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