Henry Watterson: “There was need of liberalizing and loosening things in Missouri, for which he sat in the Senate—they could not go on…”

Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.

Socialism, disappointed of its Utopia, may then repeat the familiar lesson and reproduce the man-on-horseback, or the world may drop into another abyss, and, after the ensuing “dark ages,” like those that swallowed Babylon and Tyre, Greece…

Religion’s the only game whar you can’t lose.

But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment—gush and gammon—in the proposed League of Nations.