Agnes Repplier

“ We no longer feel cocksure who are the wicked oppressors, and who are the saintly oppressed.
How exalted was our domestic indignation not so very long ago at the misrule of the Spaniards in Cuba! How beautiful the language we heard from pulpit and platform and press! "Old-world tyranny." "Heroic struggle of a downtrodden people for national existence!" "Sacred cause of freedom!" ”

“ He prophesied speedy ruin for the misguided French; he proposed—though faintly—excluding himself and his handiwork from the promised Exposition; he enjoyed, as only the Anglo-Saxon can enjoy, the exquisite delight of being better than his neighbor, and of expressing without diffidence his sense of superiority.
And now? Well, now the situation has broadened. One hears the same sentiments, but with varied applications. "Heroic struggle of the Filipinos for national existence!" (Sympathy of England, France and Germany.) "Heroic struggle of the Boers for national existence!" ”

“ IF the nations of the world are not emulating each other in various deeds, it is from no lack of precept, or of expostulation on their neighbors' parts. The amount of political preaching done in the last three years has been equaled only by the high moral tone of the preachers, and by the amazing nobility of their sentiments. ”