Whitelaw Reid: “Jefferson's phrase in the Declaration of Independence, to the effect that governments derive their just powers from the…”

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

The people have generally more education and refinement than in other parts of the State; their public improvements are better, and their country is every way more attractive.