“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.”
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To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?
A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.