It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Cause Quotes
A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men.
If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
It is the comman observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomena.
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
Men are blind in their own cause.
