ABRAHAM LINCOLN at Philadelphia, 1861

10.  I have spoken plainly because this seems to me the time when
    it is most necessary to speak plainly, in order that all the
    world may know that even in the heat and ardor of the
    struggle and when our whole thought is of carrying the war
    through to its end we have not forgotten any ideal or
    principle for which the name of America has been held in
    honor among the nations and for which it has been our glory
    to contend in the great generations that went before us.  A
    supreme moment of history has come.  The eyes of the people
    have been opened and they see.  The hand of God is laid upon
    the nations.  He will show them favor, I devoutly believe,
    only if they rise to the clear heights of His own justice and
    mercy.

    WOODROW WILSON in a speech to Congress, 1917

11.  This is what I have to say—­ponder it; something you will
    agree with, something you will disagree with; but think about
    it, if I am wrong, the sooner the wrong is exposed the better
    for me—­this is what I have to say:  God is bringing the
    nations together.  We must establish courts of reason for the
    settlement of controversies between civilized nations.  We
    must maintain a force sufficient to preserve law and order
    among barbaric nations; and we have small need of an army
    for any other purpose.  We must follow the maintenance of law
    and the establishment of order and the foundations of
    civilization with the vitalizing forces that make for
    civilization.  And we must constantly direct our purpose and
    our policies to the time when the whole world shall have
    become civilized; when men, families, communities, will yield
    to reason and to conscience.  And then we will draw our sword
    Excalibur from its sheath and fling it out into the sea,
    rejoicing that it is gone forever.

    LYMAN ABBOTT:  International Brotherhood, 1899

12.  I give you, gentlemen, in conclusion, this sentiment:  “The
    Little Court-room at Geneva—­where our royal mother England,
    and her proud though untitled daughter, alike bent their
    heads to the majesty of Law and accepted Justice as a greater
    and better arbiter than Power.”

    WILLIAM M. EVARTS:  International Arbitration, 1872

13.  You recollect the old joke, I think it began with Preston of
    South Carolina, that Boston exported no articles of native
    growth but granite and ice.  That was true then, but we have
    improved since, and to these exports we have added roses and
    cabbages.  Mr. President, they are good roses, and good
    cabbages, and I assure you that the granite is excellent hard
    granite, and the ice is very cold ice.

    EDWARD EVERETT HALE:  Boston, 1880