Tortured For The Republic.

A Nation Is Not Worthy To Be Saved If, In The Hour Of Its Fate, It Will Not Gather Up All Its Jewels Of Manhood And Life, And Go Down Into The Conflict However Bloody And Doubtful, Resolved On Measureless Ruin Or Complete Success.

The Lesson Of History Is Rarely Learned By The Actors Themselves.

It Is The High Privilege And Sacred Duty Of Those Now Living To Educate Their Successors And Fit Them, By Intelligence And Virtue, For The Inheritance Which Awaits Them.

Honesty Is The Best Policy, Says The Familiar Axiom; But People Who Are Honest On That Principle Defraud No One But Themselves.

History Is Philosophy Teaching By Example, And Also Warning; Its Two Eyes Are Geography And Chronology.