Suicide is not a remedy

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.