A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.
All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
War remains the decisive human failure.
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.