Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.

Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.

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!

Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.

Before a cure is found we will all have been affected one way or another.

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.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his read more

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

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.

There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up

There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up

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.