Albert Beveridge: “The Democrats are divided into speculative theorists & absolute terrorists.”

The nature of men forbids us to conclude that we are in no danger from war.

The Spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Is not liberty secure with us, where the people hold all powers in their own hands, and delegate them cautiously, for short periods, to their servants, who are accountable for the smallest mal-administration?...

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…