Produced by David Edwards, Matthew Wheaton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK [Illustration: A. Lincoln] THE LINCOLN YEAR BOOK AXIOMS AND APHORISMS FROM THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR COMPILED BY _WALLACE RICE_ COMPILER OF "THE FRANKLIN YEAR BOOK" CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1907 _Copyright, 1907, A. C. McClurg & Co._ _Published October 12, 1907_ _The Lakeside Press_ R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO _TO_ _Francis Fisher Browne_ _A FOLLOWER OF LINCOLN IN WAR AND PEACE PRINCIPLE AND PRECEPT_ _Let us have faith that right makes might_ _JANUARY_ _The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present._ _FIRST_ Always do the very best you can. _SECOND_ If our sense of duty forbids, then let us stand by our sense of duty. _THIRD_ It's no use to be always looking up these hard spots. _FOURTH_ All I am in the world, I owe to the opinion of me which the people express when they call me "Honest Old Abe." _FIFTH_ The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody is hindering him. _SIXTH_ No one has needed favors more than I. _SEVENTH_ Whatever is calculated to improve the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, I am for that thing. _EIGHTH_ All we want is time and patience. _NINTH_ I esteem foreigners as no better than other people--nor any worse. _TENTH_ My experience and observation have been that those who promise the most do the least. _ELEVENTH_ I didn't know anything about it, but I thought you knew your own business best. _TWELFTH_ If I send a man to buy a horse for me, I expect him to tell me his points--not how many hairs there are in his tail. _THIRTEENTH_ You must act. _FOURTEENTH_ I will try, and do the best I can. _FIFTEENTH_ His attitude is such that, in the very selfishness of his nature, he can not but work to be successful! _SIXTEENTH_ Afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. _SEVENTEENTH_ I want Christians to pray for me; I need their prayers. _EIGHTEENTH_ The young men must not be permitted to drift away. _NINETEENTH_ The free institutions we enjoy have developed the powers and improved the condition of the whole people beyond any example in the world. _TWENTIETH_ I shall do nothing in malice. _TWENTY-FIRST_ Good men do not agree. _TWENTY-SECOND_ I shall, to the best of my ability, repel force by force. _TWENTY-THIRD_ Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets. _TWENTY-FOURTH_ I never thought he had more than average ability when we were young men together. But, then, I suppose he thought just the same about me. _TWENTY-FIFTH_ Moral cowardice is something which I think I never had.