Men are blind in their own cause.

Men are blind in their own cause.

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.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.