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The Lincoln Year Book; Containing Immortal Words of Abraham Lincoln Spoken and Written on Various Occasions, Preceded by Appropriate Scripture Texts a
The Lincoln Year Book Containing Immortal Words of Abraham Lincoln Spoken and Written on Various Occasions Preceded by Appropriate Scripture Texts a Author:Abraham Lincoln Excerpt: ...been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence; if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by... more » our charter of liberty, let me entreat you to come back. FIFTH The Fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day for firecrackers. SIXTH I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. SEVENTH I have more pegs than holes to put them in. 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 God 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« less