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 entitled 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 circumscribe 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. _THIRTEENTH_ We had better have a friend than an enemy. _FOURTEENTH_ In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free. _FIFTEENTH_ No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. _SIXTEENTH_ There is no grievance that is a fit subject of redress by mob law. _SEVENTEENTH_ Punishment has to follow sin. _EIGHTEENTH_ Let us to the end dare to do our duty. _NINETEENTH_ Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity, and none will do it enthusiastically. _TWENTIETH_ It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones. _TWENTY-FIRST_