Whitelaw Reid: “That is the price nations must pay for going to war, even in a just cause.”

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

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.

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.

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