Great causes and little men go ill together.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

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.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

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.

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.

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.

Men are blind in their own cause.

Men are blind in their own cause.

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.]

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

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