Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.
The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.