Are we not bound by our own acts, and by the responsibility we have voluntarily assumed before Spain, before Europe, and before the civilized world, to consider it first in the light of national duty?
Reid argues that the United States has a moral obligation to consider its responsibilities to the world after the war.
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Brushing aside, then, these bugbears, gentlemen, what are the obvious duties of the hour?
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.
Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.
But why should a sensible man deal with such folly?