All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between these two. If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

No man ever got lost on a straight road.

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other.

The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.