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In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction.
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether read more
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
[Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere read more
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
[Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
Men are blind in their own cause.
Men are blind in their own cause.
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.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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!
