Perhaps not a present for me, but certainly a future for those that come after." "A future! How are you to know?
what warrant or guarantee have you for any such future?
Do you judge by the past?
by the signs of to-day?
I tell you this American nation will resort to any means--will pledge anything, by word or implication--to secure the end for which it fights; and will break its pledges just so soon as it can, and with whomsoever it can with impunity.

You, and your children, and your children's children after you, will go to the wall unless it has need of you in the arena." "I do not think so.

This whole nation is learning, through pain and loss, the lesson of justice; of expediency, doubtless, but still of justice; and I do not think it will be forgotten when the war is ended.
This is our time to wipe off a thousand stigmas of contempt and reproach: this"-- "Who is responsible for them?
ourselves?
What cast them there?
our own actions?
I trow not.

Mark the facts.

I pay taxes to support the public schools, and am compelled to have my children educated at home.