Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — FAMOUS SAYINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN [ARTICLE]

FAMOUS SAYINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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BY DR. DIX

One war at a time. Keep pegging away. The majority should rule. We cannot escape history. War, at the best, is terrible. I can bear censure, but not insult. Important principles must be inflexible. • Towering genius disdains a beaten path. Bad promises are better broken than kept, Lt is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. Nothing is so local as not to be of some general benefit. The government must not undertake to run the churches. If I have risen, why should any be hindered from rising? < There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law. The smallest are often the most difficult things to deal with. The dogmas of the quiet past are Inadequate to th« stormy present. We don’t read that Hannibal had-any money to prosecute his wars with." tt* People 'of any color seldom run unless there be something to run front Shall he who cannot do much be for that reason excused if he do nothing? Gold is good in its place, but living, brave and patriotic men are better than gold. Persisting tn a charge which one

does not know to be true is simply malicious slander. Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this; *— If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. Advancement —improvement in condition —is the order of things in a society of equals. Why, as to improvements, magnify the evil and stoutly refuse to see any good in them?