Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.

The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document. It is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age. Its prescriptions are clear and we know what they arebut life is always your last and most authoritative critic.

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.