These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged.

The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute laws which the people have made and within the limits of a constitution which they have established.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.