I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it. _THIRTIETH_ Let us forget errors. _JULY_ _Our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal._ _FIRST_ This country, with all its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. _SECOND_ What is the use of putting up the gap when the fence is down all around? _THIRD_ We hold the power--and bear the responsibility. _FOURTH_ My countrymen, if you have 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 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--no farther than you can see. _EIGHTEENTH_ God bless the women of America! _NINETEENTH_ The churches, as such, must take care of themselves. _TWENTIETH_ There is no more dangerous or expensive analysis than that which consists of trying a man. _TWENTY-FIRST_ Answer with facts, not with arguments. _TWENTY-SECOND_ The nation is beginning a new life. _TWENTY-THIRD_ Better give your path to a dog than to be bitten by him in contesting for the right. _TWENTY-FOURTH_ Money being the object, the man having money would be the victim. _TWENTY-FIFTH_ I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. _TWENTY-SIXTH_ Early impressions last longer. _TWENTY-SEVENTH_ Stand with anybody who stands right, ... and part with him when he goes wrong. _TWENTY-EIGHTH_ My advice is to keep cool. _TWENTY-NINTH_ If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. _THIRTIETH_