Whitelaw Reid: “If you are ever to part with it, wait at least till you have examined it and found out that you have no use for it.”

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

Isn’t it better to have the laws in some way take the matter out of their hands and make them work?

They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.

But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?