Advice To Persons About To

The Test Of Liberty Is The Position And Security Of Minorities.

I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.

The Form Of Government And The Condition Of Society Must Always Correspond. Social Equality Is Therefore A Postulate Of Pure Democracy.

There Is Not A More Perilous Or Immoral Habit Of Mind Than The Sanctifying Of Success.

I Saw In States' Rights The Only Availing Check Upon The Absolutism Of The Sovereign Will, And Secession Filled Me With Hope, Not As The Destruction But As The Redemption Of Democracy.... Therefore I Deemed That You Were Fighting The Battles Of Our Liberty, Our Progress, And Our Civilization, And I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.