The people will come to their own at last,—

He never funked and he never lied I reckon he never knowed how.

At my door the Pale Horse stands To carry me to unknown lands.

Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-American_War The Spanish-American War has been a splendid little war, begun with the highest motives, carried on with magnificent intelligence and spirit, favored by that Fortune that loves the brave. …

He weren't no saint—but at jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim. 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing— And went for it thar and then;

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.