Henry Watterson: “But in fighting he was “a dandy.” The goody-goody philosophy of the namby-pamby takes an extreme and unreal view of…”

Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.

In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.

We should say to Europe: “Shinny on your own side of the water and we will shinny on our side.” It may be that Napoleon’s opinion will come true that ultimately Europe will be “all Cossack or all republican.” Part of it has come true…

Socialism, disappointed of its Utopia, may then repeat the familiar lesson and reproduce the man-on-horseback, or the world may drop into another abyss, and, after the ensuing “dark ages,” like those that swallowed Babylon and Tyre, Greece…