Whitelaw Reid: “You are not exactly unfaithful servants; you are too blindly, unswervingly faithful.”

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.

Our national experience has demonstrated that public order reposes most securely on the broad base of universal suffrage.

They appeared at times when public men often seemed to be groping in the dark on an unknown road, but it is now evident that the road which has been taken is substantially the road they marked out.

Suppose it to be merely a war in defense of our own just rights and interests.