For Love Of Country, They Accepted Death.

The Sin Of Slavery Is One Of Which It May Be Said That Without The Shedding Of Blood There Is No Remission.

I Never Meet A Ragged Boy In The Street Without Feeling That I May Owe Him A Salute, For I Know Not What Possibilities May Be Buttoned Up Under His Coat.

Mankind Have Been Slow To Believe That Order Reigns In The Universe-that The World Is A Cosmos And A Chaos.

Now More Than Ever The People Are Responsible For The Character Of Their Congress. If That Body Be Ignorant, Reckless, And Corrupt, It Is Because The People Tolerate Ignorance, Recklessness, And Corruption.

We Hold Reunions, Not For The Dead, For There Is Nothing In All The Earth That You And I Can Do For The Dead. They Are Past Our Help And Past Our Praise. We Can Add To Them No Glory, We Can Give To Them No Immortality. They Do Not Need Us, But Forever And Forever More We Need Them.