The Lincoln Year Book Part 2

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 G.o.d 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 G.o.d bless the women of America!

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

TWENTIETH There is no more dangerous or expensive a.n.a.lysis 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.

AUGUST I feel that I can not succeed without the Divine blessing, and on the Almighty Being I place my reliance for support.

FIRST It is not "Can any of us imagine better?" but "Can we all do better?"

SECOND Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments.

THIRD Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.

FOURTH We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

FIFTH Maintain the honor and integrity of the nation.

SIXTH I look to the American people, and to that G.o.d who has never forsaken them.

SEVENTH Secure peace through victory.

EIGHTH What is the influence of fashion but the influence that other people's actions have on our actions?

NINTH Our government rests in public opinion.

TENTH Posterity has done nothing for us, and, theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it unless we are made to think we are, at the same time, doing something for ourselves.

ELEVENTH I am glad to find a man who can go ahead without me.

TWELFTH If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him you are his sincere friend.

THIRTEENTH Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better than gold.

FOURTEENTH These are not the days of miracles, and I suppose I am not to expect a direct revelation.

FIFTEENTH Do not mix politics with your profession.

SIXTEENTH The first reformer in any movement has to meet with such a hard opposition, and gets so battered and bespattered, that afterward, when people find they have to accept his reform, they will accept it more easily from another man.

SEVENTEENTH Versatility is an injurious possession, since it can never be greatness.

EIGHTEENTH A jury has too frequently at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

NINETEENTH It is a cheering thought throughout life, that something can be done to ameliorate the condition of those who have been subjected to the hard usages of the world.

TWENTIETH With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor.

TWENTY-FIRST Great distance in either time or s.p.a.ce has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

TWENTY-SECOND We are going through with our task.

TWENTY-THIRD I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to me.

TWENTY-FOURTH Human nature will not change.

TWENTY-FIFTH Beware of rashness!

TWENTY-SIXTH It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself.

TWENTY-SEVENTH All should have an equal chance.

TWENTY-EIGHTH I hope to be false to nothing you have been taught to expect of me.

TWENTY-NINTH All honor to Jefferson!

THIRTIETH It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

THIRTY-FIRST I hope I am a Christian.

SEPTEMBER 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, una.s.suming 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 G.o.d.

TWENTY-FOURTH G.o.d 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.

OCTOBER 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 ent.i.tled 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 circ.u.mscribe 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.