Great causes and little men go ill together.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

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.]

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.

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.

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.

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.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless read more

Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

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.