This submission to insult is the more extraordinary for being practised by Christian nations, which, in their intercourse with one another, push the principle of equality and reciprocity to the minutest punctilios of form.
Quincy highlights the contradiction of Christian nations accepting humiliation in their dealings with China, contrasting it with their treatment of each other.
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This error has nowhere been more frequently repeated, nowhere been of more pernicious tendency, than in America itself.
He considered himself placed between two batteries, neither of which regarded him as one of their soldiers.
I had spent the greatest part of my life in the service of the whole nation, and had been honored by their highest trust; my duty of fidelity, of affection, and of gratitude, to the whole, was not merely inseparable from, but identical…
The question raised by Martin Luther involved the whole theory of the rights of individual man, paramount to all human authority.
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