When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

Between 1910 and 1912 he was member of the committee headed by Heemskerk which prepared a revision of the constitution. Kuyper subsequently moved to the Hague without telling his friends in Amsterdam. In 1877 he left parliament because of problems with his health suffering from overexertion.

He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905. Abraham Kuijper (October 29 1837 – November 8 1920) generally known as Abraham Kuyper was a Dutch politician journalist statesman and theologian.