Great statesmen as they (the Fathers of the Republic) were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon white men were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began, so that truth and justice and mercy and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built.

FIRST

Nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on and degraded and imbruted by its fellows.

SECOND

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

THIRD

Mercy bears richer rewards than strict justice.

FOURTH

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.

FIFTH

It is not much in the nature of man to be driven to do anything.

SIXTH

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.

SEVENTH

The times are too grave and perilous for ambitious schemes and personal rivalries.

EIGHTH

Act as becomes a patriot.

NINTH

Suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.

TENTH

If danger ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad.

ELEVENTH

I can't take pay for doing my duty.

TWELFTH

I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.

THIRTEENTH

We had better have a friend than an enemy.

FOURTEENTH

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure 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 God 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 compassion 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.

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