Our Destiny Is Largely In Our Hands.

Civil War Was Not A Mere Strife For Territory And Dominion, But A Contest Of Civilization Against Barbarism.

Education Means Emancipation. It Means Light And Liberty. It Means The Uplifting Of The Soul Of Man Into The Glorious Light Of Truth, The Light By Which Men Can Only Be Made Free.

The Constitutional Framers Were Peace Men; But They Preferred Revolution To Peaceful Submission To Bondage. They Were Quiet Men; But They Did Not Shrink From Agitating Against Oppression. They Showed Forbearance; But That They Knew Its Limits. They Believed In Order; But Not In The Order Of Tyranny. With Them, Nothing Was "settled" That Was Not Right. With Them, Justice, Liberty And Humanity Were "final;" Not Slavery And Oppression.

No Man Can Put A Chain About The Ankle Of His Fellow Man Without At Last Finding The Other End Fastened About His Own Neck.

Without Struggle There Is No Success