Whitelaw Reid: “What place was there in the American system for territories that were never to be States, for colonies, or for the rule…”

We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.

I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.

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.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.