I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?