Whitelaw Reid: “I have thought there was encouragement for nations as well as for individuals in remembering the sobering and steadying…”

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to it.

That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.

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