Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.