There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops no matter how mistaken the war.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

As for charity it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned and the ultimate consequence to the general good are apt to be at complete war with one another.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place no matter by whom brought on we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without we must try to extinguish it.

Never think that war no matter how necessary nor how justified is not a crime.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

I have followed holiness I have taught truth and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters till they were right in their conditions.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Because no matter what you say in life the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.