No Power In Society, No Hardship In

Labor Is Discovered To Be The Grand Conqueror, Enriching And Building Up Nations More Surely Than The Proudest Battles.

Perhaps In Our Presence, The Most Heroic Deed On Earth Is Done In Some Silent Spirit, The Loftiest Purpose Cherished, The Most Generous Sacrifice Made, And We Do Not Suspect It. I Believe This Greatness To Be Most Common Among The Multitude, Whose Names Are Never Heard.

The Cry Has Been That When War Is Declared, All Opposition Should Therefore Be Hushed. A Sentiment More Unworthy Of A Free Country Could Hardly Be Propagated. If The Doctrine Be Admitted, Rulers Have Only To Declare War And They Are Screened At Once From Scrutiny. . . . In War, Then, As In Peace, Assert The Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press. Cling To This As The Bulwark Of All Our Rights And Privileges.

Religion Is Faith In An Infinite Creator, Who Delights In And Enjoins That Rectitude Which Conscience Commands Us To Seek. This Conviction Gives A Divine Sanction To Duty.

Real Greatness Has Nothing To Do With A Man’s Sphere. It Does Not Lie In The Magnitude Of His Outward Agency, In The Extent Of The Effects Which He Produces. The Greatest Men May Do Comparatively Little.