George F. Hoar: “I told President McKinley that I favored then, as I always had, the acquisition of Hawaii.”

This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.

The language Statius uses is more simple than mine; but this is substantially the picture he gives: and I know of nothing that so impresses on the imagination the thunder of the power of the Roman Empire as this creation in the wilderness…

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.