It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.