Albert Beveridge: “Conservatives believed that the youthful Republic was doomed; they could see only confusion, destruction, and decline.”

As the French storm increased, its winds blew ever stronger over the responsive waters of American opinion.

Any nation, however, may by statute declare an act to be piratical which is not so by the law of nations; and such an act is punishable only by that particular state and not by other governments.

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…

When we consult the common good, we consult our own." In such considerations were found the greatest security from an improper exercise of power.