Whitelaw Reid: “The simple truth is, they stand ready to claim everything, if permitted, and to accept anything, if required.”

The danger commences with the first extra-continental State.

Let those who invoke the Supreme Law of the land learn and bow to 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.

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.