style="font-size:15px;"> It is a difficult role, and so much the greater will be the honor if you perform it well.
I shall write my papers myself. The people will understand them.
Though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill-temper.
Have confidence in yourself, a valuable if not indispensable quality.
MARCH
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.
Twenty thousand is as much as any man ought to want.
By general law, life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never given merely to save a limb.
Trust to the good sense of the American people.
Let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Put the foot down firmly.
The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion.
I bring a heart true to the work.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well.
Most certainly I intend no injustice to any one, and if I have done any I deeply regret it.
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
Action in the crisis of a nation must accord with its necessities, and therefore can seldom be confined to precedent.
You can't put a long sword in a short scabbard.
"I have made it a rule of my life," said the old parson, "not to cross Fox River until I get to it."
It is sometimes well to be humble.
Don't let joy carry you into excesses.
Liberty is your birthright.
If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or government will cease.
Learn the laws and obey them.
It is easy to conceive that all these shades of opinion, and even more, may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men.
It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong.
When you have an elephant on hand, and he wants to run away, better let him run.
Whatever God designs, He will do for me yet.
Quarrel not at all.
Let no opportunity of making a mark escape.
I want in all cases to do right; and most particularly so in all cases with women.
I should rejoice to be spared the labor of a contest, but being in I shall go it thoroughly.
I intend discourtesy to no one.
The doctrine of self-government is right – absolutely and eternally right.
This government is expressly charged with the duty of providing for the general welfare.
We are not bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to reject all progress, all improvement.
Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.
APRIL
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause which we deem to be just.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
He has abundant talents – quite enough to occupy all his time without devoting any to temper.
I do not argue – I beseech you to make the argument for yourself.
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