Let us hear no more of the little dependence to be had in war upon voluntary service.

The things, with which we are primarily and mainly concerned, are inward passions; and not outward arrangements.

These latter may be given at any time; when the parts, to be put together, are in readiness.

Hatred and love, and each in its intensity, and pride (passions which, existing in the heart of a Nation, are inseparable from hope)--these elements being in constant preparation--enthusiasm will break out from them, or coalesce with them, upon the summons of a moment.

And these passions are scarcely less than inextinguishable.