Albert Beveridge

I will never more be responsible for him by any direct support, even though the consequence should be the election of Jefferson....

As well ask shattered glass to remould itself!

It would be "a dangerous imprudence to abandon those measures of self-protection ... to which ... violence and the injustice of others may again compel us to resort....

His foreign prejudices seem to me totally to unfit him for the chief magistracy of a nation which cannot indulge those prejudices without sustaining deep and permanent injury.

He will diminish his responsibility, sap the fundamental principles of the government, and become the leader of that party which is about to constitute the majority of the legislature.

But if, disregarding the popular will and also violating the Constitution, Congress "shall elect a stranger to rule over us, peace and union are driven from the land....

Although our part in this general submission to these brigands of the seas was shameful, America was the first to move against them.

The affairs of this government will not only be ruined but ... the disgrace will attach to the federal party if they permit the re-election of Mr.

The principal American demand was compensation for the immense spoliation of American commerce by the French.

One part of the treaty abandons all our rights, and the other part makes us the dupes of France in the game she means to play against the maritime power of England....

Despots and tyrants! now may you safely pronounce 'ingratitude is the common vice of all republics.

My friends would dishonor my views and insult my feelings by a suspicion that I would submit to be instrumental in counteracting the wishes and expectations of the United States.

Can our Countrymen be caught by so flimsy a pretext?

The nation thus submitting would be soon involved in the quarrels of its master, and would be compelled to exhaust its blood and its treasure, not for its own liberty, its own independence, or its own rights, but for the aggrandizement of…

I pray heaven that America may never contribute its still further elucidation.

Terrible to her neighbors on the continent of Europe, as all must admit France to be, I believe that the United States, if indeed united, if awake to the impending danger, if capable of employing their whole, their undivided force--are so…

Every citizen has a right to know the political sentiments of the man who is proposed as his representative; and mine have never been of a nature to shun examination.

I consider that constitution as the rock of our political salvation, which has preserved us from misery, division and civil wars; and which will yet preserve us if we value it rightly and support it firmly.

I do not think the interest and prosperity of America, at all dependent on the alliance with any foreign nation; nor does the man exist who would regret more than myself the formation of such an alliance.

In truth, America has, in my opinion, no motive for forming such connection, and very powerful motives for avoiding them.

Europe is eternally engaged in wars in which we have no interest; and with which the fondest policy forbids us to intermeddle.

We ought to avoid any compact which may endanger our being involved in them.

I am not in favor of an alliance offensive and defensive with Great Britain nor for closer connection with that nation than already exists.

We ought to have commercial intercourse with all, but political ties with none.

Our children see this and learn to imitate it....