"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."

"The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future."

"Our personality exists in two identities,--the sphere of self, and the sphere of soul."

"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."

"So the greatness as well as the power of a country broadens every life and blesses every home."

"But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power."

"We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war."

"A great and free country is not merely defense and protection. For every earnest spirit, it is opportunity and inspiration."

"Politics, I believe, is the organization of the human elements and powers for the promotion of right living, and to secure the noblest ends of living attainable in human character."

"This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal."

"But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men, - men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man, and must we say in the name of God?"

"It is something great and greatening to cherish an ideal; to act in the light of truth that is far-away and far above; to set aside the near advantage, the momentary pleasure; the snatching of seeming good to self; and to act for remoter ends, for higher good, and for interests other than our own."

"We fought the enemies of our common Country, to overthrow the engines and symbols of its destruction, wherever found upon its soil. We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities. But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought was wider."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@BoycottLiberalism.com