How many times I have spoken to you in the old Executive Chamber of the importance to the whole world of the possession of Mexico--and of the power it would infallibly give to this continent, as in Europe to those who possessed it.
Boutwell recalls his discussions on the significance of Mexico for global power dynamics.
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The value of every article is resolved finally by the ascertainment of its value in gold.
There was not in General Grant's nature any element of suspicion, and his confidence in his friends was free and full.
The reference of the question at issue to the tribunal at Geneva was a conspicuous instance of the adjustment of a grave international dispute by peaceful methods.
On no man in public life in this generation were there more frequent charges and insinuations of wrong-doing, and in this generation there has been no man in public life who was freer from all occasion for such insinuations and charges.
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