A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.

Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.

Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.

Men are blind in their own cause.

Men are blind in their own cause.

Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect--
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Mad let us grant him them, and now remains
That we find out the cause of this effect--
Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
For this effect defective comes by cause.
Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.

The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them,
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Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;
For, on their answer, will we set on them,
And God befriend us as our cause is just!

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.