Whitelaw Reid: “The difficulties which at present discourage us are largely of our own creation.”

And next, shall we not probably fare best in the end if we try to profit somewhat by the experience others have had in like cases?

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

As a foreign critic said in comment on one of the addresses: "The author is one man who knows what he thinks about the new policy required by the new situation in which his country is placed, and has the courage and candor to say it.