George F. Hoar: “I beg to say that I see no way in which the public good can be so well promoted as by your consenting to go to the…”

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.

We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.

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.

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.