"I would have sent ministers to the meeting had it been merely to give them such advice as they might have desired, even with reference to their own interests, not involving ours."
"ThatAmericahas a set of primary interests which have none or a remote relation to Europe."
"If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Carthagenians were bound to abolish the practice of sacrificing their own children because it was stipulat..."
"I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the assembly as merely consultative."
"It may be that in the lapse of many centuries no other opportunity so favorable will be presented to the Government of the United States to subserve the benevolent purposes of Divine Providence; to di..."
