Charles Sumner: “A power which Heaven never gave can be maintained only by means which Heaven can never sanction.”

Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…

Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.

It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.

By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…