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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.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, read more
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
 Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
 For, on their answer, will we set on them,
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 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! 
 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. 
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.
 Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
 That we find out the cause of this effect--
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 Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
 That we find out the cause of this effect--
  Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
   For this effect defective comes by cause.
    Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. 
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Great causes and little men go ill together.