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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether read more
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one read more
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
 Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
 For, on their answer, will we set on them,
  And read more 
 Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
 For, on their answer, will we set on them,
  And God befriend us as our cause is just! 
 Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
 [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere read more 
 Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
 [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.] 
 O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
 With pity that doth make me sick.  
 O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart
 With pity that doth make me sick. 
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 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.
 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.