Henry Cabot Lodge: “They are especially eager to go forward with a man who never sounds a retreat.”

So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

The blood of some ancestral Scotch covenanter or of some Dutch reformed preacher facing the tyranny of Philip of Spain was in his veins, and with his large opportunities and his vast audiences he was always ready to appeal for justice and…

But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.

Of all the ideals that lift men up, the hardest to fulfill is the ideal of sacrifice.