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 God 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 nobly 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 appetites controlled, all passions 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 shift 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 fashion is not confined to any particular thing or class 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 appetite 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.

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