I feel that the time is coming when the sun shall shine, the rain fall, on no man who shall go forth to unrequited toil.

FIRST

Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.

SECOND

Come, let us reason together, like the honest fellows we are.

THIRD

There is no such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer.

FOURTH

There is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits.

FIFTH

Labor is prior to and independent of capital.

SIXTH

This is a land where freedom of speech is guaranteed.

SEVENTH

Workingmen are the basis of all governments.

EIGHTH

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

NINTH

The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I.

TENTH

How hard it is to leave one's country no better than if one had never lived in it!

ELEVENTH

Keep the jewel of liberty in the family of freedom.

TWELFTH

Among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

THIRTEENTH

I have done all I could for the good of mankind.

FOURTEENTH

It is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

FIFTEENTH

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

SIXTEENTH

What will the country say?

SEVENTEENTH

Mediocrity is sure of detection.

EIGHTEENTH

Washington was a happy man, because he was engaged in benefiting his race.

NINETEENTH

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion—kind, unassuming persuasion—should ever be adopted.

TWENTIETH

If all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them full justice for their conduct during the war.

TWENTY-FIRST

There is something ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off.

TWENTY-SECOND

Object whatsoever is possible, still the question recurs, "Can we do better?"

TWENTY-THIRD

I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

TWENTY-FOURTH

God is with us.

TWENTY-FIFTH

Intemperance is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of all evils among mankind.

TWENTY-SIXTH

When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Saviour's condensed statement of both law and gospel, that church will I join with all my heart and soul.

TWENTY-SEVENTH

Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but the victory is sure to come.

TWENTY-EIGHTH

The first necessity is of proving that popular government is not an absurdity.

TWENTY-NINTH

People seldom run unless there is something to run from.

THIRTIETH

Allow the people to do as they please with their own business.