The worst possible introduction for the Asiatic trade would be an irresolute abandonment of our foothold because it was too much trouble to keep, or because some Malay and half-breed insurgents said they wanted us away.
Reid warns against abandoning American interests in Asia due to local dissent, stressing the importance of resolve.
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Will you take peace without territory and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country?...
With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
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.
Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.