Our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

FIRST

This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

SECOND

What is the use of putting up the gap when the fence is down all around?

THIRD

We hold the power—and bear the responsibility.

FOURTH

My countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our charter of liberty, let me entreat you to come back.

FIFTH

The Fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day for firecrackers.

SIXTH

I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

SEVENTH

I have more pegs than holes to put them in.

EIGHTH

The government must not undertake to run the churches.

NINTH

All seems well with us.

TENTH

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

ELEVENTH

It is no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation.

TWELFTH

If the Ship of State should suffer wreck now, it will never need another pilot.

THIRTEENTH

Let us see what we can do.

FOURTEENTH

I will try to go to God with my sorrows.

FIFTEENTH

The wriggle to live, without toil, work, or labor, which I am not free from myself.

SIXTEENTH

Persisting in a charge one does not know to be true is malicious slander.

SEVENTEENTH

Steer from point to point—no farther than you can see.

EIGHTEENTH

God bless the women of America!

NINETEENTH

The churches, as such, must take care of themselves.

TWENTIETH

There is no more dangerous or expensive analysis than that which consists of trying a man.

TWENTY-FIRST

Answer with facts, not with arguments.

TWENTY-SECOND

The nation is beginning a new life.

TWENTY-THIRD

Better give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him in contesting for the right.

TWENTY-FOURTH

Money being the object, the man having money would be the victim.

TWENTY-FIFTH

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

TWENTY-SIXTH

Early impressions last longer.

TWENTY-SEVENTH

Stand with anybody who stands right, ... and part with him when he goes wrong.

TWENTY-EIGHTH

My advice is to keep cool.

TWENTY-NINTH

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.

THIRTIETH

I have done just as much as, and no more than, the public knows.

THIRTY-FIRST

Many free countries have lost their liberties and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest boast, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

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