George F. Hoar: “I cannot concur even with my best friends in giving the lead in a great question to a notorious opponent to the cause.”

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

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.

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.