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 am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

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

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.