I want to approve everything, and I endorse all that Brother Bowen, Brother Levi Edgar Young and others have spoken of the evils of dictatorships, and of the effect thereof upon the liberties of the people, and the older I get the more I think of and value the dear human liberty, the right to do within the law what I please, the right to frame my own life, the right to read what I want, the right to do what I want when I want to do it. Abstract liberty to me, the liberty which we have under our divinely inspired Constitution is, next to my God and family, the thing nearest and dearest to my wife. . . . Now I have no language to express my abhorrence of war, I have no language to express my opposition to conquest by force. Most of those things are to me anathema. . . . So, brethren, let us be quiet at any rate about this matter, while at the same time holding in our hearts of course the abhorrence of war, the abhorrence of conquest, the abhorrence of the imposition of an alien rule upon people, but let us remember that we live in a glass house and ought not to throw stones.