Albert Beveridge: “A Bank that issues Paper at Interest is a Pickpocket or a Robber.”

It could borrow money, but could not levy taxes or impose duties to pay the debt.

Thus were the ideas of Nationality and localism in America brought into sharper conflict by the mob and guillotine in France.

The war in which the several potentates of Europe were engaged against France, although in almost every instance declared by that power, was pronounced to be a war for the extirpation of human liberty, and for the banishment of free…

Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of…