If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.