We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

Build a man's ego and you'll win his favor; crush a man's ego and you'll receive much grief from him.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.