War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.