If we could agree on the butterfly program that would be one thing, but if we held to our plan and Bill stood out, he would be a traitor to his party and a fellow of very bad manners.

As long as the aims of my party are, in the main, right, I believe its commands are sacred.

Always in our country the will of the greatest number ought to prevail--right or wrong.

It has a right even to make mistakes, for through them it should learn wisdom and gradually adjust itself to the will of its greatest leaders." It is remarkable that the great commoner should have made himself understood by a boy of eight, but in so doing he exemplified the gift that raised him above all the men I have met--that of throwing light into dark places so that all could see the truth that was hidden there.
Now and then we came to noisy water hills slanting far back through rocky timbered gorges, or little foamy stairways in the river leading up to higher levels.

The men carried the canoes around these places while I followed gathering wild flowers and watching the red-winged black birds that flew above us calling hoarsely across the open spaces.