Cause
I trust the goodness of the cause, and the exertions of the people, and Divine protection, will give us that honorable peace for which we are contending.
Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.
Strength is granted to us all when we are needed to serve great causes.
You must look at facts, because they look at you.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
But the safety of the people of America against dangers from foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give just causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to invite hostility or insult.

