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No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
 The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
 [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]  
 The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
 [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.] 
 To all facts there are laws,
 The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.  
 To all facts there are laws,
 The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause. 
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of read more
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause read more
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
 Ask you what provocation I have had?
 The strong antipathy of good to bad.  
 Ask you what provocation I have had?
 The strong antipathy of good to bad. 
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his read more
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.