I only beg that you will not ask impossibilities of me. _JUNE_ _It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion,--that we here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain._ _FIRST_ Let the people know the truth, and the country is safe. _SECOND_ Men moving in an official circle are apt to become merely official--not to say arbitrary. _THIRD_ Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us if we will do nothing for them? _FOURTH_ The Lord is always on the side of the right. _FIFTH_ If I go down, I intend to go down like the "Cumberland," with my colors flying. _SIXTH_ Killing the dog does not cure the bite. _SEVENTH_ I am nothing, but truth is everything. _EIGHTH_ Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. _NINTH_ Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do. _TENTH_ Only those generals who gain success can be dictators. _ELEVENTH_ Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? _TWELFTH_ The Patagonians open oysters and throw the shells out of the window--until the pile gets higher than the house; then they move. _THIRTEENTH_ The question of time can not and must not be ignored. _FOURTEENTH_ We must be more cheerful in the future. _FIFTEENTH_ Come what will, I will keep my faith with friend and foe. _SIXTEENTH_ Keep in your own sphere, and there will be no difficulty. _SEVENTEENTH_ If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. _EIGHTEENTH_ I am never easy, when I am handling a thought, until I have bounded it north, south, east, and west. _NINETEENTH_ Others have been made fools of by the girls, but this can never be said of me; I made a fool of myself. _TWENTIETH_ It is not best to swap horses while crossing a stream. _TWENTY-FIRST_ I can only trust in God that I have made no mistake. _TWENTY-SECOND_ It has been said of the world's history hitherto that "might makes right"; it is for us and for our times to reverse the maxim, and to show that right makes might. _TWENTY-THIRD_ I shall stay right here and do my duty. _TWENTY-FOURTH_ If we have no friends, we have no pleasure. _TWENTY-FIFTH_ I am older in years than I am in the tricks and trades of politicians. _TWENTY-SIXTH_ Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. _TWENTY-SEVENTH_ Our enemies want a squabble; and that they can have if we explain; and they can not have it if we don't. _TWENTY-EIGHTH_ If it must be that I go down, let me go down linked to truth. _TWENTY-NINTH_