more generous, more enthusiastic than you have given in Lincoln tonight. From Speech Concluding Campaign of 1908. Truth Irresistible In view of the triumph of the principles and policies for which the democracy of Nebraska has contended for so many years I beg to offer, as my contribution to your intellectual feast, a very appropriate sentiment expressed in most felicitous language by James Russell Lowell: "Get but the truth once uttered, and it is like a star new born, that drops into its place, and which, once circling in its placid round, not all the tumult of the earth can shake." From message to Birthday Banquet, 1914. A Call to Action The leaders of the party must keep step with the rank and file, swept along by the progressive spirit of the day and inspired by the impressive sentiment expressed by Byron: "The dead have been awakened-shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants-shall I crouch? The harvest's ripe-and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not-the thorn is in my couch. Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, Its echo in my heart." From speech at Washington Banquet, 1912. A Passage from Pericles Pericles, in speaking of those who fell in the Peloponnesian war, lauding the loyalty of his countrymen, said: "It was for such a country, then, that these men, nobly resolving not to have it taken from them, fell fighting, and every one of their survivors may be willing to suffer in its behalf." The strength of a nation does not lie in forts, nor in navies, nor yet in great standing armies, but in happy and contented citizens, who are ever ready to protect for themselves and to preserve for posterity the blessings which they enjoy. From Arlington Memorial Address. Duty to Country "Who saves his country, saves himself, and all things saved do bless him; who lets his country die, lets all things die, dies himself ignobly, and all things, dying, curse him." Building for All Time Ben Hill "Time is on our side. It is better to write one word on the rock than a thousand on the water or the sand." William Ewart Gladstone. After each extract will be found a reference to the speech The First Commandment The Fruits of the Tree The Message from Bethlehem Man The Prince of Peace The Price of a Soul Published in sepa- rate volumes by Published separately, and in a col- The following from which extracts are taken will be found Acceptance Speech (1896) Acceptance Speech (1900) (Imperialism) Acceptance Speech (1908) America's Mission Bimetalism, Speech on, in Congress, 1893 Chicago Association of Commerce, Speech before, 1908 Chicago Convention, 1896 Conservation, Speech at the White House, May 15th, 1908 County Option Speech, 1910 Cuban Republic, Birth of Havana, Cuba, Speech at, 1902 New York Reception, Speech at, 1906 Tariff, Speech on, in Congress, 1892 Tariff, Speech at Des Moines, 1908 Tokyo, Japan, Speech at the Ambassador's Dinner, 1905 The following speeches from which quotations have been Birthday Banquet, Speech at Lincoln East India Article (1906) St. Louis' Convention Speech (1916) Total Abstinence Speech, at New York (1915) War in Europe and its Lesson for Us, The (1916) Washington Banquet, Speech at (1912) Washington Banquet, Speech at (1916) The following quotations give the speech in full: Agriculture Baltimore Convention Speeches (1912) Christian's Reasons, The Christmas Thought, A Co-operation, Speech on, at Latin-American Conference Grand Canyon, The Grave of a Friend, By the (1903) Gray's Elegy, Speech Presenting (1890) High School Students, To, at Boston (1916) Mother Argument, The Neighbors, To (1908) New Year's Resolve Resignation, Statements Issued at the Time of Riley Day Address (1916) Silent Blackmailer, The Socrates on Service (A Conquering Nation) Printed in the United States of America ER |