What do you say to this?
Shall I decline to go?
It means my resignation at once." I hesitated.

The heart of the nation and the nation's life were about me.

Our state, such as it was, lay there in that room, and with it our problems, our duties, our dangers.

I knew, better than most, that there were real dangers before this nation at that very hour.

I was a lover, yet none the less I was an American.