Whitelaw Reid: “You thought differently; went to war about it, and established by numbers what you could not by argument.”

Congress is supreme, and, for all the purposes of this department, has all the powers of the people of the United States, except such as have been expressly or by implication reserved in the prohibitions of the Constitution.

With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship, and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?