We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

Our country demands all our strength, all our energies. To resist the powerful combination now forming against us will require every man at his place. If victorious, we will have everything to hope for in the future. If defeated, nothing will be left for us to live for.