Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war.

Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.