From such lessons they will be sure to gather at once that if they now show a trace of timidity or hesitation in their firm and just course, because somebody has said something in Washington or on the stump, or because there is an election coming on, they will fail.
Reid warns against the dangers of hesitation and political pressure in governance.
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Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.
It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.