You Come Before Me This Morning With

My Duty Is Clear And At All Costs Will Be Done.

Judge Men Less By The Labels They Wear Than By Their Persistent Labour For Sure If Slow Progress.

I Believe, However, That Impending Events Will Call Us And We Must Respond But Where, With Whom, And How?

I Recognise That Socialism Has Ended Its Purely Theoretical Course, And That The Hour To Construct Has Come.

In This Work I Have Received The Opposition Of A Number Of Men Who Only Advocate The Unobtainable Because The Immediately Possible Is Beyond Their Moral Courage, Administrative Ability, And Their Political Prescience.