To get Congress to do anything.

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

Be happy. Talk happiness.