aw-loving nation, for our law is our life.

Experience has taught me that there is no true liberty apart from law.
Law is a boundary line, a wall of protection, circumscribing the field in
which liberty may have her freest exercise. Beyond the boundary line,
freedom must surrender her rights, and change her name to "penalty for
transgression." The law is no enemy, but the friend of liberty. The
world and the planets move by law. Disregarding the law by which they
move, they would become wanderers in the bleak darkness forever.

The human mind in its normal condition moves and works by law. When
self-will, blinded by passion or lust, enters her realm, and breaks her
protecting laws, mind then loses her sweet liberty of action, and becomes
a transgressor. Chaos usurps the throne of liberty, and mind becomes at
enmity with law. How many, many times the words of the poet have sung to
my soul during the past twenty-six years:

Eternal spirit of the chainless mind,
Brightest in dungeon's liberty thou art,
For there thy habitation is the heart,
The heart, which love of thee alone can bind.

Your locomotive with her following load of life and treasure is safe while
she keeps the rails, but, suppose that with an insane desire for a larger
liberty, she left the rails and struck out for herself a new pathway,
ruin, chaos and death would strew her course. And again let me impress
the fact upon you. Law is one of humanity's valiant friends. It is the
safeguard of the highest personal and national liberties. The French
revolution furnishes a standing illustration of society without law.

There are times when I think the American people are not patriotic enough.
Some think patriotism is necessary only in time of war, but I say to you
it is more necessary in time of peace.

When the safety of the country is threatened, and the flag insulted, we
are urged on by national pride to repel the enemy, but in time of peace
selfish interests take the greater hold of us, and retard us in our duty
to country.

Nowhere is patriotism needed more than at the ballot-box. There the two
great contestants are country and self, and unless the spirit of
patriotism guides the vote our country is sure to lose. To be faithful
citizens we must be honest in our politics. The political star which
guides us should be love for our country and our country's laws.

Patriotism, side by side with Christianity, I would have to