Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.